**Alert: **An row in Sheriff-o-matic that indicates a problem affecting a test.
**Benchmark: **A set of test cases that measure some aspect of Chrome's performance. The most common type of benchmark that we manage is Telemetry benchmarks.
**Bisect: **A binary search within a range of Chrome commits to find which the revision responsible for a functional or performance regression. Pinpoint is the name of the bisection microservice.
**Bot: **An ambiguous term that can mean either swarming bot or host.
**Device: **The physical hardware that we run performance tests on.
**Flakiness dashboard: **A dashboard that shows the revisions at which a given test failed. Also known as the test results dashboard.
**Host: **The physical hardware that Telemetry runs on. For desktop testing, this is the same as the device on which the testing is done. For mobile testing, the host can mean either the Linux desktop or one of the multiple Docker containers within that Linux desktop, each with access to a single attached mobile device.
**Hostname: **A string identifier for the host which looks like “build139-b1”. For mobile testing, there's both a hostname for the Linux desktop (e.g. “build140-b1”) and a hostname for each Docker container within that host (e.g. “build140-b1--device6”).
**Isolate: **A container sent to a swarming bot containing everything that a swarming task needs to run. (Pronounced “ice-o-lit”.)
**Logdog: **The microservice within LUCI that displays logs.
**LUCI: **An acronym standing for **“**Layered Universal Continuous Integration”. It is a collection of scalable open-source build infrastructure services that includes microservices like swarming and LogDog.
**Pinging a bug: **To add a comment on a bug asking if there‘s any status update. Generally this is done when we expected some action to have been taken towards resolving the bug, but it wasn’t.
Pinging a person [offline]: To contact someone on chat. Generally, this is done to follow up on a bug that's particularly urgent or that needs attention from someone who has been unresponsive on Monorail.
**Pinpoint: **The microservice used to run bisects.
**Sherff-o-matic: **The central tool used to bot health sheriff.
**Snooze: **An action taken by sheriffs to dismiss an alert for a defined amount of time.
**Story: **A single test case within a Telemetry benchmark.
**Swarming: **A set of AppEngine services used to distribute and run tasks on a pool of hosts.
**Swarming bot: **A Python binary running on each host that polls for new swarming tasks and executes them.
**Swarming task: **A command that a given swarming bot is told to run (e.g. “Run this Telemetry Python script with these parameters.”).
**Telemetry: **The infrastructure used to write Chrome performance benchmarks.
