Availability · Estimate

A service has a 99.95% success-rate SLO over 30 days and serves 1 million requests a day. How many failed requests can it afford in that period?

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Answer

About 15,000 failed requests. In review, anything from 10,000 to 22,500 counts as right.

The worked estimate

30 days × 1,000,000 = 30,000,000 requests. The budget is 0.05% of them: 30,000,000 × 0.0005 = 15,000 failed requests. When the budget is spent, teams slow down risky changes until it recovers.

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