Fajita uses a consistent vocabulary. Roles are owner, admin, member.
For fuller definitions of monitoring, incidents, alerts, status pages, and reliability metrics, see the software reliability glossary.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Organization | The account that owns monitors, pages, and billing |
| Monitor | A configured check against one target |
| Scheduled check | A check that runs on the monitor's interval |
| Manual test | An on-demand check that never affects incidents |
| Assertion | A rule a response must satisfy |
| Verification | Confirming a failure across consecutive checks |
| Incident | A confirmed period of unhealthy behavior |
| Alert channel | A destination for notifications |
| Routing rule | The link between what happened and who is alerted |
| Component | A public unit of your service on a status page |
| Subscriber | A confirmed recipient of status updates |
| Entitlement | What your plan allows |