We report one MTTR number and it never improves. Break down where incident time actually goes.

MTTR is three clocks hiding in one number. Profile detection, diagnosis and fix separately from incident timestamps; attack whichever clock dominates, which is almost never rollback speed.

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MTTR is three clocks hiding in one number. Profile detection, diagnosis and fix separately from incident timestamps; attack whichever clock dominates, which is almost never rollback speed.

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