10 Ways To Reduce Your MTTR
Search Disaster Recovery, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Mean time to repair is a critical metric for BCDR professionals. Learn how to calculate and reduce MTTR with this tip.
Business continuity and disaster recovery pros need a way to determine how long something will take to fix, whether it is a business process, IT system or hardware component. MTTR is one helpful metric they can rely on.
Mean time to repair is a widely used metric that estimates the average time a system is likely to need for repair before it can resume normal operation. It is also sometimes referred to as the mean time to resolve, recover or respond.
Regardless of what you call it, the lower the MTTR value, the easier the item will be to fix. When managing systems, technologies or processes, the goal is to reduce the average time something will need for repair. If, for example, a system's MTTR is 0, its users will experience much less downtime than those with a system that has a positive value for its MTTR.