Why Percentiles Don’t Work the Way You Think

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Baron Schwartz. "Why Percentiles Don’t Work the Way You Think." solarwinds.com, November 2016. Archived at perma.cc/469T-6UGB

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Why Percentiles Don’t Work the Way You Think - SolarWinds Blog

Customers ask us for p99 (99th percentile) of metrics pretty frequently. We plan to add such a feature to Database Performance Monitor (DPM)(more on that later). But a lot of the time, when customers make this request, they have something very specific, and different, ...

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