How much downtime does 99.5% uptime allow?
99.5% uptime allows 1d 19h 48m of downtime per year. Here is the full budget, by period.
| Per day | 7m 12s |
| Per week | 50m 24s |
| Per month | 3h 36m |
| Per quarter | 10h 48m |
| Per year | 1d 19h 48m |
| Period | Allowed downtime |
|---|---|
| Per day | 7m 12s |
| Per week | 50m 24s |
| Per month | 3h 36m |
| Per quarter | 10h 48m |
| Per year | 1d 19h 48m |
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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