Glossary
Infrastructure Evidence
Verifiable records of how infrastructure behaved during a window.
Definition
Infrastructure evidence is any verifiable record of how systems behaved during a time window - probe results, incident timelines, correlation outputs - preserved with enough context (timestamps, origins, checksums) to be relied upon later.
The problem
Logs rotate, dashboards are mutable, and memories of an incident decay within days. By the time a credit conversation or postmortem happens, the record is gone or disputed.
Why it matters
Evidence converts a transient outage into a durable, checkable artifact: postmortems cite it, vendors respond to it, contracts reference it.
Practical example
A record covering a 22-minute window: every observation in it, the detection record with the rule id that applied, the correlated incident, and a SHA-256 checksum over the payload plus an Ed25519 signature when a signing key is configured.
How RELIASTRA approaches it
Generated records are checksummed and bound to the account that produced them. The unauthenticated verification endpoint confirms a record exists and matches its hashes - without disclosing endpoints, headers or account details.
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