Glossary
Independent Measurement
A record produced by an observer with no stake in the outcome, from its own requests.
Definition
Independent measurement is observation performed by a party that neither operates the observed service nor depends on it: the observer issues its own requests, from its own infrastructure, records the raw results, and publishes the method that produced them.
The problem
Every account of an outage is written by someone. The operator’s logs, the vendor’s status page and the customer’s dashboards all describe the same window from positions with different incentives and different blind spots.
Why it matters
A record is only useful in a dispute if neither party authored it. Independent measurement converts “you say / we say” into one timestamped dataset both sides can check the provenance of.
Practical example
RELIASTRA’s public records measure the HTTP behaviour of a vendor’s listed endpoint from RELIASTRA infrastructure on a fixed schedule; the vendor’s own status text is never read, parsed or reconciled into the number.
How RELIASTRA approaches it
Independence is stated as scope, not claimed as authority: which endpoint, which origin, which method, which limits - published in the record itself so a reader can weigh the observation without trusting the brand. See the measurement methodology.
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