
Measuring and Improving MTTR in Your Engineering Team: From Chaos to Predictability
There’s a moment every engineer dreads—that 3 AM alert when something critical goes down, and suddenly your team is in full firefighting mode. The real question isn’t if systems will fail (they will), but how quickly you can get them back online. That’s where Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) comes in, and it’s honestly one of the most underrated metrics in engineering. Not because it’s complex, but because most teams measure it wrong or worse—not at all....
