Observability · Estimate

An SLO of 99.95% availability over a 30-day window: how many minutes of total outage does its error budget hold?

medium Availability Estimation

Answer

About 22 minutes per month. In review, anything from 14.7 to 33 counts as right.

The worked estimate

30 × 24 × 60 = 43,200 minutes. The budget is 0.05% of that: 43,200 × 0.0005 = 21.6 minutes. Half of 99.9%'s 43 minutes, and five times 99.99%'s 4.3 minutes. One slow rollback can spend all of it.

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