Quorum (Location Confirmation)
In monitoring, a quorum is the number of check locations that must agree a service is failing before an incident is opened.
Requiring a quorum — say, 2 of 3 regions confirming the failure — filters out local network glitches and bot challenges that hit a single probe. It trades a few seconds of delay for far fewer false positives.
Related terms
False Positive (Alerting)A false positive is an alert that reports a problem which is not actually affecting users — a false alarm.FlappingFlapping is when a monitored service rapidly alternates between up and down, producing a storm of conflicting alerts.Uptime MonitoringUptime monitoring is the practice of automatically checking a service at regular intervals to detect outages and measure availability.
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