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Hour audit: 2026-08-28T17

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Every number on this page is a stored measurement read from this hour's own records: its manifest.json, its witness statistics sidecar, and the corpus attestation. Nothing here is computed from the served bytes at the time you load the page, so no line below claims the bytes are correct. The digest and the one command that checks them are printed instead.

No findings

Every check that could be evaluated for this hour passed. That is not the same as the hour being perfect: it means the records this archive keeps about it agree with each other and with the corpus ledger.

1 check could not be evaluated for this hour, listed with the reason in the block below. A check we could not run is recorded as exactly that, and never counted as a pass.

The report

POLYMARKET ORDERBOOK ARCHIVE — HOUR AUDIT
hour 2026-08-28T17 · corpus v3 · verdict AUDIT PASS

COVERAGE    minutes present 60/60 · first event 2026-08-28T17:00:00.020671729+00:00 · last event 2026-08-28T17:59:59.999787526+00:00
VOLUME      115,502,714 rows · 1,302,046,990 bytes (1.21 GiB) · 7 products, all holding rows
WITNESSES   abceh — 5 machines contributed rows
            captured  c: 112,593,068 · e: 111,211,308 · h: 108,190,729 · a: 99,451,081 · b: 83,469,247   (each machine's own feed; these overlap and do not sum to the file)
            supplied  c: not measured · e: not measured · h: not measured · a: not measured · b: not measured   (rows of the merged file that came from it; these partition it)
INTEGRITY   sha256 20bd2de4f0f731a3e2b40386eaa45ab1af6245bbc242e80dc7592df8bda20211
            the corpus checksum ledger names this file with the same digest
            joined 115,507,710 to merged 115,502,714, minus 4,996 (minus 0.0043%)
            boundary drops 4,996 · guard cache
SIDECARS    none: this hour's manifest has no v31 key. The v3.1 sidecars are optional, and hours before them have none
MARKETS     not measured (the per-hour market census runs on the capture host and its output is not published per hour)
HISTORY     layout union-event-sorted-v1
            re-merges not measured (the merge ledger records the merge that produced this file, not the history of attempts)
            supersessions not measured (supersession is recorded per corpus in the storage registry, not in the hour manifest)
CHECKS      7/8 pass, 1 not evaluated
              PASS    all products present
              PASS    row counts reconcile
              PASS    byte ranges tile the file
              PASS    the merge delta is explained
              SKIPPED which machines were expected is not published beside this hour
              PASS    the checksum ledger names this file
              PASS    the hour is whole
              PASS    a boundary guard ran
UPSTREAM    our incident register was checked against the venue's own status feed at 2026-09-23T20:35Z and names no event in this hour. That is a statement about what they published, not a check that every message they sent reached us.

The words in this report

Each line in the CHECKS block states what was found, not what was hoped for: a check that passes is named for the thing that is true, and a check that does not is renamed to the thing that is wrong. So FINDING never sits beside a sentence asserting the opposite of the one below it.

The report above is fixed-width text, so nothing in it can be clicked. The same terms are linked here instead. Its verdict is a statement about minutes and nothing else. The row it reports comes from this hour's own manifest and its witness-statistics sidecar, and the completeness line comes from the corpus attestation. The gap between the joined and merged counts is deduplication, not loss, and the boundary drops are the duplicates discarded at the seam with the hour before. Where the history line names a supersession, this hour was rebuilt to a better state after it was first published. The precision is the timestamp resolution these files carry.

Detail

The same records, per product. A product holding no rows renders its zero rather than being dropped: dropped and empty are indistinguishable to a reader, and only one of them is a defect. A cell reading not meas. is one nothing published, which is a third thing again and never a zero.

The class column is the merger's own verdict for that product, and it is keyed to CONTRIBUTION rather than presence. FULL means every machine expected to be capturing this hour delivered rows for that product; PARTIAL means some did and some did not; SINGLE-BY-DESIGN means only one machine was ever expected, and SINGLE-BY-DEFECT means several were and one delivered. So PARTIAL here is a statement about the fleet, not about the product being damaged or truncated: the rows that are present are whole.

PRODUCT                     rows          bytes   row groups  sha256
best_bid_ask           9,196,088    112,881,431         0-35  bccd38f82f31c2270e620766608a9856cf8185eda67f0e96b0622f5da89f3467
book                   3,126,213    123,295,607        36-47  8fbab03a85df60d6a4dd3c82aa1042ce332715a68b72e676d9e88175f2f68167
last_trade_price          89,902      4,989,416        48-48  6d2a9ac25866ce162c9427428a559a558dd16de9dd5a0ff6fc28ffa42eadc3dd
market_resolved            1,765        167,610        49-49  a78f84d20ab3af48d65c18dbddcccea50626bc93a3903bd70ecc52784724eb34
new_market                 2,586        179,084        50-50  f6ce68023220364ff0ce2e0602a2ef74703f21557905b2f4cff56c3341db3bc4
price_change         103,081,548  1,059,047,063       51-444  ff6134a56a19be7dc6d5975fc1a54d2052e1112df383563d7d4725608b4aa998
tick_size_change           4,612        169,108      445-445  03767733783767979ddb196641b71fb800b6223619450d225c7f606ec0ff47d8

EVENT MIX                  count    share
price_change         103,081,548   89.25%
best_bid_ask           9,196,088    7.96%
book                   3,126,213    2.71%
last_trade_price          89,902    0.08%
tick_size_change           4,612   <0.01%
new_market                 2,586   <0.01%
market_resolved            1,765   <0.01%

PER PRODUCT               joined        merged   boundary  exception mkts             class
best_bid_ask           9,196,381     9,196,088        293           5,424              FULL
book                   3,128,918     3,126,213      2,705         182,193              FULL
last_trade_price          89,902        89,902          0             873              FULL
market_resolved            1,768         1,765          3             338              FULL
new_market                 2,601         2,586         15             119              FULL
price_change         103,083,528   103,081,548      1,980           1,924              FULL
tick_size_change           4,612         4,612          0             406              FULL

Captured and supplied are different numbers

Captured is how many rows each machine's own feed carried. Redundant capture means these OVERLAP, heavily and on purpose, so they do not partition the file and their sum is larger than it. Two machines each capturing nearly every event is the archive working, not double counting.

Supplied is how many rows of the merged file actually came from that machine. This one does partition: it sums to the file's row count exactly. But it is decided by the merge's tie-break, so a machine can capture almost everything and supply almost nothing. Read alone, either number tells a false story about the fleet, which is why both are printed and neither is called "the witness share".

What the skew columns mean

Arrival skew is the receipt timestamp minus the venue timestamp, in milliseconds. For six of the seven products the sidecar interprets it as transport latency, and marks that interpretation assumed: it rests on the venue timestamp being emit time, which we cannot verify from outside.

book is not latency and must not be read as latency. Its venue timestamp is the last time the book changed, so the sidecar interprets it as book staleness and warns in its own note that large values mean a quiet book rather than slow transport. Its maximum runs to weeks for that reason. This is why the table above gives a row per product per machine and never one figure for the hour: percentiles do not average, and these seven do not measure the same quantity.

Check it yourself

The digest above is a claim. This is how you refuse to take our word for it:

curl -O https://archive.pendulumflow.com/v3/2026-08-28/17/2026-08-28T17.parquet
sha256sum 2026-08-28T17.parquet
# compare with the sha256 line in the report above

A range digest certifies bytes. That those bytes are the product the manifest names comes from the manifest, which is why both are published and both are checkable.

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