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Hour audit: 2026-09-01T19

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1 finding

The report

POLYMARKET ORDERBOOK ARCHIVE — HOUR AUDIT
hour 2026-09-01T19 · corpus v3 · verdict AUDIT PASS* (1 finding)

COVERAGE    minutes present 60/60 · first event 2026-09-01T19:00:00.033257130+00:00 · last event 2026-09-01T19:59:59.999900816+00:00
VOLUME      97,709,616 rows · 1,073,094,620 bytes (1023.38 MiB) · 7 products, all holding rows
WITNESSES   ceh — 3 machines contributed rows
            captured  c: 97,178,835 · h: 97,150,067 · e: 95,683,794   (each machine's own feed; these overlap and do not sum to the file)
            supplied  c: 262,074 (0.27%) · h: 1,764,948 (1.81%) · e: 95,682,594 (97.93%)   (rows of the merged file that came from it; these partition it)
            2 product-machine pairs publish no supplied count; the figures above still sum to the file's 97,709,616 rows exactly, so those pairs supplied none
            4 expected (bceh), 1 contributed nothing: b
INTEGRITY   sha256 5f55afa4bf519100385a587eacbd55d539c8413aff2c22668c66bef5a3061ceb
            the corpus checksum ledger names this file with the same digest
            joined 97,711,050 to merged 97,709,616, minus 1,434 (minus 0.0015%)
            boundary drops 1,434 · 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     merged 2026-09-01T22:40:18Z as ceh
            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 finding
              PASS    all products present
              PASS    row counts reconcile
              PASS    byte ranges tile the file
              PASS    the merge delta is explained
              FINDING a machine expected this hour contributed nothing
              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           7,239,298     94,827,350         0-27  bdc72666c332e080e23f6e4a497f566348d60324a8da7d4ab1d10547c5d862c3
book                     966,297     80,910,319        28-31  825dcc57afc3828a19e4d30dee484f42a5d1175e3333d0163908ddfa12816282
last_trade_price          75,487      4,210,375        32-32  96547e2b930cf628ad10e3844e6796011f188753a0d7d88d5b04cfd69fa51d62
market_resolved              987        156,478        33-33  b7c8edb9dab4fd00636c551f3771168a956a57cb63ed7558d05ce84bfca77b73
new_market                 5,875        641,355        34-34  89778f60ebd5514593ceb4be5b5008954564d069a8445f2aec5f22f654a7a34c
price_change          89,414,316    890,967,294       35-376  f0d7733020f11ecde9803919cc7d19ea1459ea5e99b70ae860408cc32bede849
tick_size_change           7,356        267,987      377-377  f80ed7b5e6b6ee270c7f2d4f802e6d8be5fa65f0f55c1957c23f6b0b4bb49ff1

EVENT MIX                  count    share
price_change          89,414,316   91.51%
best_bid_ask           7,239,298    7.41%
book                     966,297    0.99%
last_trade_price          75,487    0.08%
tick_size_change           7,356   <0.01%
new_market                 5,875   <0.01%
market_resolved              987   <0.01%

PER PRODUCT               joined        merged   boundary  exception mkts             class
best_bid_ask           7,239,406     7,239,298        108         125,789           PARTIAL
book                     966,713       966,297        416         176,629           PARTIAL
last_trade_price          75,487        75,487          0           3,886           PARTIAL
market_resolved              987           987          0             975           PARTIAL
new_market                 5,875         5,875          0           4,134           PARTIAL
price_change          89,415,226    89,414,316        910         157,405           PARTIAL
tick_size_change           7,356         7,356          0           1,839           PARTIAL

ARRIVAL SKEW      m           rows          won      p50      p90      p99      max  unmeasurable  interpretation
best_bid_ask      c      7,237,072        2,225      5ms     15ms    359ms     6.8s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      e      7,185,381    7,185,275     48ms    263ms     5.4s    53.1s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      h      7,233,734       51,798     19ms     52ms    593ms    57.5s             0  transport_latency_assumed
book              c        462,813      214,255    31.4s  50.0min    24.4d    94.9d             0  book_staleness
book              e        463,621      463,435    38.0s     1.0h    24.3d    94.9d             0  book_staleness
book              h        493,927      288,607    37.6s  56.6min    24.8d    94.9d             0  book_staleness
last_trade_price  c         75,459          171     11ms     54ms    465ms     5.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  e         69,261       69,261    115ms     5.2s    17.5s    52.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  h         75,235        6,055     30ms    324ms     1.8s    45.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   c            975           12      5ms    194ms   1.0min   1.1min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   e            975          975     48ms    701ms    58.9s    58.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   h            975    not meas.     21ms    174ms    59.3s    59.3s             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        c          4,134          589     92ms    31.5s   2.0min   2.5min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        e          4,134        4,134    302ms    37.4s   1.9min   2.5min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        h          4,134        1,152    175ms    37.1s   1.9min   2.5min             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      c     89,391,026       44,822      5ms     15ms    358ms     7.0s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      e     87,953,078   87,952,170     48ms    410ms    10.3s    53.1s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      h     89,334,710    1,417,324     19ms     60ms    721ms    58.5s             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  c          7,356    not meas.      5ms     10ms    233ms    762ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  e          7,344        7,344     48ms    179ms     2.6s    21.6s             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  h          7,352           12     19ms     31ms    374ms     6.4s             0  transport_latency_assumed

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/v3/2026-09-01/19/2026-09-01T19.parquet
sha256sum 2026-09-01T19.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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