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saturation term

resource at or near capacity, queues forming

One of the four golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, saturation). When a resource saturates, queue depth grows and latency spikes nonlinearly.

aliases: maxed out, at capacity

topics: latency, capacity

references:

• SRE Book Ch. 6 — Monitoring Distributed Systems
• Brendan Gregg — USE Method