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MTTA
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MTTA (Mean Time To Acknowledge)

Mean Time To Acknowledge

Average time from incident or request creation until it is acknowledged by the responsible team.

Examples

  1. 01MTTA for critical IT incidents is 4 minutes, from the alarm to an engineer confirming they are on it.
  2. 02Supervisors review MTTA by team and time of day, and nights show the longest delays.
  3. 03When MTTA for critical incidents exceeds 10 minutes, the on-call process is changed to call a second engineer automatically.

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