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Comment by kevincox

6 years ago

The distribution is important.

If 100% of users are experiencing 0.01% random errors it probably isn't worth bothering about.

If 0.01% of users are experiencing 100% errors than it is much more important.

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kevan  6 years ago

Enter "windowed user-uptime"[1], which helps differentiate between these conditions.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi20/presentation/hauer

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