alt Hacker NewsYou can compute them for the average. In other words, the total customer impact is the number of business-hours of downtime across all customers divided by the total number of business hours of all customers.
This is important because it's quite possible that the downtime is biased toward the times they have the most active users.
Big systems worth their salt already do this as weighted uptime, considering request successes / total requests rather than wall clock uptime as internal SLOs. But these numbers aren't really ever published because it gives away information about your customer base.
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