Uitvielen

Uitvielen is a Dutch term commonly used to describe outages or failures of systems, services, or processes. It is derived from the verb uitvallen, which means to fail, to drop out, or to become unavailable. In technical and journalistic writing, uitval is the more common noun for an outage, and uitvielen may appear in contexts discussing multiple incidents or observed events.

Context and usage

Uitvielen is primarily encountered in context of infrastructure, technology, and utilities. It can refer to disruptions in electrical power, telecommunications, internet services, software platforms, or industrial processes. In reporting or analysis, the term is used to describe episodes where components or services cease to function as intended and later recover. The plurality of incidents can be described with phrases such as several uitvielen across the system or multiple uitvielen in a given period.

Causes and effects

Outages described by uitvielen can result from hardware failures, software bugs, configuration errors, power supply interruptions, network faults, maintenance work, or external events like storms. The effects typically include service disruption, user impact, potential data loss, safety considerations, and financial costs for organizations and users.

Measurement and management

Outages are assessed by duration (how long the service was unavailable), scope (how many users or components were affected), and severity. Common management metrics include mean time to repair (MTTR) and availability percentages. Incident reports often specify start and end times, root causes, and remediation steps to prevent recurrence.

See also

Uitval, storing, outage, downtime.

Examples

The nationwide outage caused several uitvielen of services across multiple providers. After the incident, engineers investigated the causes that led to the uitvielen of key network components.