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                                    <a data-type="indexterm" data-primary="monitoring distributed systems" data-secondary="short- vs. long-term availability" id="id-jyCxSoFETNSd"></a>A common theme connects the previous examples of Bigtable and Gmail: a tension between short-term and long-term availability. O