# Confiability of the ignition system

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/confiability-of-the-ignition-system/34740>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [May 14, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/confiability-of-the-ignition-system/34740 "2020-05-14T12:59:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ovega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@ovega](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ovega)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/confiability-of-the-ignition-system/34740/1 "2020-05-14T12:59:51Z")

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hi please how can you determine the confiability of the ignition system?

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/confiability-of-the-ignition-system/34740/2 "2020-05-14T13:00:03Z")

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The what?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/confiability-of-the-ignition-system/34740/3 "2020-05-14T13:01:02Z")

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Based on french, I believe @ovega means “reliability”.

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**Author:** ![jonathan.taylor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jonathan.taylor/32/4048_2.png) [@jonathan.taylor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jonathan.taylor)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/confiability-of-the-ignition-system/34740/4 "2020-05-14T13:05:00Z")

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If it helps, I’ve seen systems with uptimes greater than 3 years

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**Author:** ![brandon1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@brandon1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/brandon1)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/confiability-of-the-ignition-system/34740/5 "2020-05-15T00:21:12Z")

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We have a system that has been running for 7 years. Only had one major issue during that period and had we enabled automatic gateway backups the downtime would have been much shorter than the 3 hours it ended up being.