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Hour audit: 2026-09-21T11

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1 finding

The report

POLYMARKET ORDERBOOK ARCHIVE — HOUR AUDIT
hour 2026-09-21T11 · corpus v3 · verdict AUDIT PASS* (1 finding)

COVERAGE    minutes present 60/60 · first event 2026-09-21T11:00:00.000126104+00:00 · last event 2026-09-21T11:59:59.999985854+00:00
VOLUME      114,524,404 rows · 1,198,731,730 bytes (1.12 GiB) · 7 products, all holding rows
WITNESSES   cefh — 4 machines contributed rows
            captured  h: 113,547,837 · f: 113,513,234 · e: 113,498,567 · c: 105,352,567   (each machine's own feed; these overlap and do not sum to the file)
            supplied  h: 13,446,961 (11.74%) · f: 414,328 (0.36%) · e: 1,087,162 (0.95%) · c: 99,575,953 (86.95%)   (rows of the merged file that came from it; these partition it)
            5 expected (cefgh), 1 contributed nothing: g
INTEGRITY   sha256 396a993d57bb89b40397374dbb90aa1f9e9ab5d0e3dca1244602c9735b567118
            the corpus checksum ledger names this file with the same digest
            joined 114,525,632 to merged 114,524,404, minus 1,228 (minus 0.0011%)
            boundary drops 1,228 · 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 2026-09-21T12:56:29Z as cefh
            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          10,985,822    122,038,846         0-41  2799d92a9f5efab62f1615e82e73a62aa7ac20f980532f5a38e94d3ff447528a
book                     865,385     58,662,729        42-45  ad9e769099737533184c866453a543d9a9a8f0ea4fe3e14337ecdf68467840b7
last_trade_price          57,991      3,263,462        46-46  f0a41fcd966dffa6187f73eb42c82e2c5b47c0722c294508141bebccda0bcf14
market_resolved              806        121,928        47-47  a2b012fa587c58c7e211938742e5348ab7dfc047035f3c7d8155ae68b563ca50
new_market                 1,110        114,879        48-48  5343141ec72ec98c15ebdef65c36c75dc1301e131b9fa457f713c7a5979fc1fe
price_change         102,610,070  1,013,109,736       49-440  ffaa9b4b4e4efe44795f8b703c2aa03f2deadba186cd5faaf458222c3cf0ae6a
tick_size_change           3,220        117,391      441-441  f774cb1b8ddd9eec137680235b487d5427f1f1d82c1bb634a1435344bdcdc19f

EVENT MIX                  count    share
price_change         102,610,070   89.60%
best_bid_ask          10,985,822    9.59%
book                     865,385    0.76%
last_trade_price          57,991    0.05%
tick_size_change           3,220   <0.01%
new_market                 1,110   <0.01%
market_resolved              806   <0.01%

PER PRODUCT               joined        merged   boundary  exception mkts             class
best_bid_ask          10,985,962    10,985,822        140          64,901           PARTIAL
book                     865,449       865,385         64         150,741           PARTIAL
last_trade_price          57,991        57,991          0           3,208           PARTIAL
market_resolved              806           806          0             750           PARTIAL
new_market                 1,110         1,110          0             739           PARTIAL
price_change         102,611,094   102,610,070      1,024         116,211           PARTIAL
tick_size_change           3,220         3,220          0             805           PARTIAL

ARRIVAL SKEW      m           rows          won      p50      p90      p99      max  unmeasurable  interpretation
best_bid_ask      c     10,196,006    9,684,981      6ms     14ms    103ms     3.3s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      e     10,982,229       85,499     41ms     52ms    209ms    13.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      f     10,982,226       22,445     49ms     62ms    226ms    17.3s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      h     10,984,315    1,192,897     18ms     31ms    135ms    49.4s             0  transport_latency_assumed
book              c        732,285      720,813   5.8min     2.8d    43.9d   114.5d             0  book_staleness
book              e        208,758       66,334    560ms  44.3min    29.9d   114.6d             0  book_staleness
book              f        201,554       59,689    316ms  36.9min    29.9d   114.6d             0  book_staleness
book              h        122,085       18,549     22ms    148ms  36.0min    96.0d             0  book_staleness
last_trade_price  c         52,774       49,516      7ms     25ms    213ms     2.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  e         57,160          683     45ms    535ms     7.6s    13.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  f         57,128          371     52ms    471ms     5.7s    17.3s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  h         57,555        7,421     20ms     70ms    410ms    40.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   c            724          578      7ms    42.2s   3.2min   4.2min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   e            750          142     44ms    32.8s   1.0min   1.0min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   f            750           28     50ms    31.0s    55.8s    58.1s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   h            750           58     19ms    34.9s    52.1s    59.7s             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        c            745          470    193ms    31.9s   2.4min   4.1min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        e            739          112    355ms    31.3s    48.7s   1.3min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        f            739          180    330ms    25.8s    42.5s    44.4s             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        h            739          348    209ms    29.7s    48.7s   1.3min             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      c     94,367,053   89,116,769      6ms     17ms    133ms     4.1s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      e    102,245,711      934,374     42ms     72ms     1.4s    13.9s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      f    102,267,617      331,614     49ms     80ms     1.3s    17.4s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      h    102,379,173   12,227,313     18ms     38ms    241ms    49.6s             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  c          2,980        2,826      6ms     12ms    153ms    226ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  e          3,220           18     41ms     49ms    106ms    199ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  f          3,220            1     49ms     58ms    117ms    182ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  h          3,220          375     18ms     26ms     66ms    239ms             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/v3/2026-09-21/11/2026-09-21T11.parquet
sha256sum 2026-09-21T11.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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