Graceful Degradation is the design property by which a system, when partially failed or overloaded, continues to provide reduced service rather than collapsing entirely. In a data center it might mean shedding non-critical load, throttling compute or running on limited cooling during a fault, preserving the most important functions until full capacity is restored.
Category: Resilience & Availability · Subcategory: Business Continuity · Part of the AIDC Technical Terminology reference.