How much downtime does 99.95% uptime allow?
99.95% uptime allows 4h 22m 48s of downtime per year. Here is the full budget, by period.
| Per day | 43s |
| Per week | 5m 2s |
| Per month | 21m 36s |
| Per quarter | 1h 4m 48s |
| Per year | 4h 22m 48s |
| Period | Allowed downtime |
|---|---|
| Per day | 43s |
| Per week | 5m 2s |
| Per month | 21m 36s |
| Per quarter | 1h 4m 48s |
| Per year | 4h 22m 48s |
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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