How to define, Measure and Report IT Service availablity

The blog post over at ITSM Tools, provides some key points as summarized by the author:

There’s little point in telling a customer that you provided 98% availability if you don’t understand the impact of the 2% downtime

Talk to your customers to make sure you understand the business impact of any downtime on them, and on their end customers

Think about ways to protect your customers’ critical business processes

Find ways to measure the frequency and duration of downtime, and the impact of downtime on productivity that are matched to your customers’ needs

Agree, document, and report availability metrics in ways that both make sense to your customers and help you to plan

Use appropriate tools and instrumentation to help you measure and report availability.

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