Outages Glossary
Browse 3 outages terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
3 Outages Terms
- Bring Down the House
- A joking phrase for causing a major outage, widespread failure, or dramatic disruption. In ops slang, it usually refers to an action or bug that affects much...
- Down Detector
- A service people use to check whether popular websites, platforms, or internet services appear to be down for many users. In tech culture it often becomes a...
- Production Incident
- A failure or degradation in a live system that affects real users, business operations, or service reliability. The term usually implies formal response,...
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