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a partial failure in cloud systems that the system's own failure detectors miss while applications observe degraded behavior.

In distributed systems, gray failure refers to a partial failure in cloud systems that the system's own failure detectors miss while applications observe degraded behavior. This meaning comes from Huang (2017) in Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems.[1]

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References

Huang, P., Guo, C., Zhou, L., Lorch, J. R., Dang, Y., Chintalapati, M., & Yao, R. (2017). Gray Failure: The Achilles' Heel of Cloud-Scale Systems. Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3102980.3103005

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