https://revelara.ai/tags/corpus-analysis/Recent content in Corpus-Analysis on RevelaraHugoen-usSun, 10 May 2026 08:00:00 -0700https://revelara.ai/blog/medium-severity-paradox-corpus-analysis/Sun, 10 May 2026 08:00:00 -0700https://revelara.ai/blog/medium-severity-paradox-corpus-analysis/<p>The average critical-severity incident in the Revelara corpus takes about 19 hours to resolve. The average medium-severity incident takes about 17 hours. On those two numbers alone, the natural conclusion is that critical incidents are roughly where engineering time goes, and that medium-severity work is the manageable middle. The conclusion is wrong by roughly an order of magnitude, and the data shows why.</p> <h2 id="the-numbers-and-how-the-analysis-was-run">The numbers, and how the analysis was run</h2> <p>This analysis pulls from the Revelara public postmortem corpus, which currently spans nearly 3,000 published incidents and grows daily. Two severity-targeted comparisons were run. The &ldquo;critical&rdquo; set returned 272 incidents matching body language like SEV1, P0, total outage, and major. The &ldquo;medium&rdquo; set returned 284 incidents matching SEV3, P2, degraded, and partial.</p>