There are a lot of layers in the overall timing between something happening with a service and everything being executed for the service to be restored again.  And DataMiner definitely does not control all variables involved in that.

T0: when the condition actually occurs (e.g. an input stream is no longer present / a signal input cable is disconnected / …)

T1: when the involved product is aware of this, and can flag this towards the outside world via its remote control APIs

There will be a delay between T0 and the product being fully aware of this situation and the product reflecting this via its APIs, and this is entirely defined by the internal processes of the product.  Note that sometimes there will be even a deliberate delay build-in (sometimes user-definable even).

T2: when DataMiner is aware of this

This entirely depends on the protocol used, and whether this is push / unsolicited (e.g. SNMP trap) or pull technology (i.e. polling).  For pull type of data collection, you have to be careful with the design of the driver to optimize for this (i.e. timing could depend on your poll timers and other triggers).  

T3: when the DataMiner Redundancy Group is triggered

This could again be different depending on what the condition is for DataMiner to trigger the redundancy group.  There are conditions on Alarm State and conditions on Parameter Value for example.  If it is based on Alarm State, you have to make sure that you don’t have things like hysteresis that add to the timing.

NOTE: also in the redundancy group configuration there are options that could add to the overall timing when they are used (e.g. persistency, i.e. a specific condition has to be true to a user-defined time before it triggers).

T4: when DataMiner executed all actions to perform the fail-over on the third party product

This can be an immediate single setting of a control on a device, but this could also be done by an automation script (to facilitate more complex fail-over processes). This will again impact on the overall timing.  It can be a big difference if the redundancy can be done with a single set on the product or if it involves a much more complex process where potentially several metrics need to be configured (and maybe even some settings need to be retrieved to be double checked). 

T5: when the third party product accepted and applied all the necessary actions instructed by DataMiner.

Some products take some time to accept a new setting, and especially if you have a whole series of settings that need to be done, this can add up.

T6: when the third party product is active again with that new configuration

It is not uncommon at all that it still takes some time before a service becomes active, after all the settings have been done (e.g. encoders may take quite a bit of time before you have an active output after you have applied certain new settings).

And while I might have overlooked some other important details in the entire process, you can probably see already that timing is a very delicate thing.  First thing to do always is to establish what you are talking about (T0 to T6? T2 to T4?), because depending on that, you may not be in control of all variables involved in the equation.  And there are a lot of things that you can do to get a very fast response time, but you really have to engineer it for that purpose and be conscient about all the cog wheels in the entire end to end process.  But if needed and done properly, it can be done very fast by DataMiner.

PS: be cautious also on how this is validated.  Note for example that a reading on the screen in DataMiner, after you have performed a set, is typically only changing AFTER DataMiner retrieved that reading again from the product after the set was done (i.e. what you see on the screen is what DataMiner effectively retrieved from the target product – this is usually quite fast because a setting should automatically trigger right after a reading of that same metric).  I’m just saying because once I had somebody claiming another software application was faster in performing settings than DataMiner, but that software just showed on the screen the new setting as soon as you clicked the button to apply that setting (i.e. a copy of the new setting was instantly pushed in the reading field of the software, even before it was send out to the target product), and of course that is faster and we could do the same in DataMiner, but it simply does not reflect reality.