How much downtime does 95% uptime allow?
95% uptime allows 18d 6h of downtime per year. Here is the full budget, by period.
| Per day | 1h 12m |
| Per week | 8h 24m |
| Per month | 1d 12h |
| Per quarter | 4d 12h |
| Per year | 18d 6h |
| Period | Allowed downtime |
|---|---|
| Per day | 1h 12m |
| Per week | 8h 24m |
| Per month | 1d 12h |
| Per quarter | 4d 12h |
| Per year | 18d 6h |
Detection matters as much as the budget. With 5-minute monitoring you can burn minutes of this allowance before you even detect an outage. PingInsight's true 1-second checks catch it almost immediately.
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