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 fault report covering a 22-minute window: per-region observations, quorum verdict, correlated customer impact, and a SHA-256 checksum binding the report to the organization that generated it.
How RELIASTRA approaches it
Generated reports are checksummed and bound to the producing organization. A public verification reference confirms a report exists and matches its checksum - without disclosing endpoints, headers or account details.
Know when your dependencies fail. Prove what happened.
Monitor the external APIs your product relies on, correlate their failures with your incidents, and generate verifiable evidence when a vendor causes downtime.