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Hour audit: 2026-09-21T22

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1 finding

The report

POLYMARKET ORDERBOOK ARCHIVE — HOUR AUDIT
hour 2026-09-21T22 · corpus v3 · verdict AUDIT PASS* (1 finding)

COVERAGE    minutes present 60/60 · first event 2026-09-21T22:00:00.000008541+00:00 · last event 2026-09-21T22:59:59.999988630+00:00
VOLUME      107,504,776 rows · 1,120,186,024 bytes (1.04 GiB) · 7 products, all holding rows
WITNESSES   cefh — 4 machines contributed rows
            captured  h: 105,946,750 · f: 105,845,910 · e: 105,445,485 · c: 91,353,145   (each machine's own feed; these overlap and do not sum to the file)
            supplied  h: 20,313,902 (18.90%) · f: 433,562 (0.40%) · e: 1,023,271 (0.95%) · c: 85,734,041 (79.75%)   (rows of the merged file that came from it; these partition it)
            5 expected (cefgh), 1 contributed nothing: g
INTEGRITY   sha256 67947c8c3432a0ba232b826c08e2ec7049087b70459fcc84fba13724ad6e434e
            the corpus checksum ledger names this file with the same digest
            joined 107,510,858 to merged 107,504,776, minus 6,082 (minus 0.0057%)
            boundary drops 6,082 · 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 2026-09-21T23:55:18Z 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          10,520,406    119,377,906         0-40  7d038601b2a417bc355b21ff4bff20f2c297396f351d8d1595846a2988d2d1d1
book                   1,410,006     71,534,695        41-46  dbded3c0073cb39a61907d651412edc98c247757e1ed58c9a543e5689e91e843
last_trade_price          50,344      2,865,431        47-47  6366fc7f27d697bea5d5e1fc49b1a1ff421b89fb7cff996608d608124cf7e66b
market_resolved              676        106,118        48-48  3b3ebb168dae55257cbe87c5d52271ba3a8371605da67ef2703cc6005c7fc889
new_market                 1,040        109,369        49-49  dfc29a072dac0d64018a1829032d944ad068d98764fa78224493935093851053
price_change          95,518,472    924,826,105       50-414  9bf40f0db35cc57d7075efed299667cad4f5dddaf5a0b51fd533408be5d2082e
tick_size_change           3,832        140,248      415-415  2947053a60417fdabc73ec270214c09022f09eba44faa68e3d07714d7ecb71b9

EVENT MIX                  count    share
price_change          95,518,472   88.85%
best_bid_ask          10,520,406    9.79%
book                   1,410,006    1.31%
last_trade_price          50,344    0.05%
tick_size_change           3,832   <0.01%
new_market                 1,040   <0.01%
market_resolved              676   <0.01%

PER PRODUCT               joined        merged   boundary  exception mkts             class
best_bid_ask          10,520,566    10,520,406        160          77,902           PARTIAL
book                   1,410,052     1,410,006         46         177,286           PARTIAL
last_trade_price          50,344        50,344          0           3,017           PARTIAL
market_resolved              676           676          0             652           PARTIAL
new_market                 1,040         1,040          0             708           PARTIAL
price_change          95,524,348    95,518,472      5,876         130,478           PARTIAL
tick_size_change           3,832         3,832          0             958           PARTIAL

ARRIVAL SKEW      m           rows          won      p50      p90      p99      max  unmeasurable  interpretation
best_bid_ask      c      8,934,302    8,421,059      5ms     16ms    139ms     9.4s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      e     10,505,662       86,779     41ms     55ms    269ms    15.7s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      f     10,518,030       31,381     48ms     62ms    223ms    14.4s             0  transport_latency_assumed
best_bid_ask      h     10,513,917    1,981,187     18ms     29ms    179ms   1.7min             0  transport_latency_assumed
book              c      1,347,988    1,312,832   8.4min     3.3d    43.3d   115.0d             0  book_staleness
book              e        132,250       31,031     52ms  14.7min    14.5d   115.0d             0  book_staleness
book              f        118,373       14,243     52ms   1.7min    12.6d   115.0d             0  book_staleness
book              h        143,262       51,900     26ms  22.9min    22.2d    96.5d             0  book_staleness
last_trade_price  c         41,274       38,149      6ms     32ms    236ms     3.5s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  e         48,980          638     43ms    334ms     3.5s    15.7s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  f         49,993          511     50ms    237ms     2.7s     6.1s             0  transport_latency_assumed
last_trade_price  h         49,637       11,046     19ms     66ms    402ms    49.1s             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   c            637          512      6ms    37.2s   4.8min   5.1min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   e            651          109     42ms    25.8s    60.0s   1.0min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   f            652            2     51ms    25.8s   1.0min   1.0min             0  transport_latency_assumed
market_resolved   h            652           53     19ms    27.2s    57.1s   1.0min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        c            708          439    103ms    18.3s  21.2min  21.2min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        e            708          172    212ms    13.7s    45.1s   1.7min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        f            708          134    212ms    14.4s    38.7s   1.5min             0  transport_latency_assumed
new_market        h            708          295    163ms    16.8s    42.8s   1.7min             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      c     81,024,836   75,957,816      5ms     19ms    157ms     9.6s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      e     94,753,402      904,530     41ms     74ms     1.2s    15.7s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      f     95,154,322      387,287     48ms     77ms    611ms    14.4s             0  transport_latency_assumed
price_change      h     95,234,742   18,268,839     18ms     36ms    260ms   1.7min             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  c          3,400        3,234      5ms     12ms    161ms     1.4s             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  e          3,832           12     41ms     47ms    137ms     1.5s             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  f          3,832            4     47ms     52ms    114ms    196ms             0  transport_latency_assumed
tick_size_change  h          3,832          582     18ms     23ms     53ms     84ms             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/v3/2026-09-21/22/2026-09-21T22.parquet
sha256sum 2026-09-21T22.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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