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SLA & Error Budget

Turn an uptime target into the downtime it actually allows.

Why this exists

“99.9% uptime” sounds nearly perfect until you see it permits 8.8 hours of downtime a year. Turns an availability target into the concrete error budget used in on-call planning and contract reviews.

🔒 Runs in your browser — nothing is sent anywhere

99.9% availability allows

per day
1m 26s
per week
10m 4s
per month
43m 49s
per quarter
2h 11m 29s
per year
8h 45m 56s

Error budget

20m of 43m 49s used, 23m 49s left. (45.6%)

That is 99.9544% availability for the month.

Dependencies in series

Every dependency multiplies. This is the usual reason a system misses a target that each of its parts meets.

Combined: 99.8401% 14h 1m 10s a year