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Availability math

SLA, uptime, and error budget calculator

Translate uptime targets into concrete downtime budgets, or enter a real outage duration to see the resulting availability for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly windows.

Forward calculator

Choose a target availability/SLO to calculate allowed downtime.

Daily budget1 minute 26.4 seconds
Weekly budget10 minutes 4.8 seconds
Monthly budget43 minutes 49.7 seconds
Yearly budget8 hours 45 minutes 57 seconds

Reverse calculator

Enter outage time to calculate achieved availability.

Examples: 1h 20m, 3 days 4 hours, 15m 30s, 45s, PT1H20M.

Resulting availability99.817%

Business-hours mode

Weekday-only calculations are useful when an internal service promise excludes nights and weekends.

Weekday business-hours downtime1 hour 30 minutesFriday 16:30 to Monday 10:00 counts as 1.5 business hours by default.

Nines reference table

TargetDailyWeeklyMonthlyYearly
90%2 hours 24 minutes16 hours 48 minutes3 days 1 hour 2 minutes 54.6 seconds36 days 12 hours 34 minutes 55.2 seconds
99%14 minutes 24 seconds1 hour 40 minutes 48 seconds7 hours 18 minutes 17.5 seconds3 days 15 hours 39 minutes 29.5 seconds
99.9%1 minute 26.4 seconds10 minutes 4.8 seconds43 minutes 49.7 seconds8 hours 45 minutes 57 seconds
99.99%8.6 seconds1 minute 0.5 seconds4 minutes 23 seconds52 minutes 35.7 seconds
99.999%0.9 seconds6 seconds26.3 seconds5 minutes 15.6 seconds
99.9999%0.1 seconds0.6 seconds2.6 seconds31.6 seconds

SLA

A Service-Level Agreement is an external promise to customers. Do not offer a contractual SLA unless legal, support, and billing terms are ready.

SLO and SLI

A Service-Level Objective is the internal target. A Service-Level Indicator is the measured data, such as successful checks divided by total checks.

Error budget

The error budget is the amount of downtime or failed checks left before the target is missed. Teams use it to decide when to slow releases and stabilize.

How ErrorNotifier fits

Free workspaces start with one ping every 15 minutes. Paid plans can move to five-minute, two-minute, or one-minute checks, add Slack and verified webhooks, and keep longer history for reviews.

Public demo

Review the real product screens with read-only mock data

Open the demo workspace to inspect monitors, incidents, domains, alert channels, status pages, projects, issues, automated test runs, releases, artifacts, audit history, and umbrella reports without creating an account.