The Crest Factor is a specification designed to measure the reliability of an application or a system.

This manifest was created by the need of a common standardization to measure how reliable is an application or system.

In Eletrical Engineering, the Crest Factor is used for describing the quality of an AC power waveform. In other words, crest factor indicates how extreme the peaks are in a waveform. A Crest factor of 1 indicates no peaks, such as direct current or a square wave. Higher crest factors indicate peaks, for example sound waves tend to have high crest factors.

A theorical application with a crest factor of 1 is one hundred percent reliable, meaning that it is one hundred percent in compliance with every single criteria by the standardization.

The Crest Factor is measured by how an application or system is in compliance with the following:

• Documentation
• Monitoring (Logging, Alerting, Metrics)
• High Availability (Self-Healing, Change Management, Emergency Response, Capacity Planning, Business Continuity)
• Security (Secret Management, Data Protection, Access Management, Vulnerability Assessment, Threat Assessment, Recovery)
• Performance (Latency, Efficiency, Scalability)