Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

The recovery time objective (RTO) is the maximum tolerable length of time that a computer, system, network, or application can be down after a failure or disaster occurs.

Recovery time objective (RTO) is a key metric that helps you to calculate how quickly a system or application needs to be recovered after downtime so there is no significant impact on the business operations. In short, RTO is the measure of how much downtime you can tolerate.

The recovery time objective is about having policies and technologies in place that enable an organization to recover within a certain duration of time.