What is P99 latency?
问题 What does P99 latency represent? I keep hearing about this in discussions about an applications performance but couldn't find a resource online that would talk about this. 回答1: It's 99th percentile. It means that 99% of the requests should be faster than given latency. In other words only 1% of the requests are allowed to be slower. 回答2: We can explain it through an analogy, if 100 students are running a race then 99 students should complete the race in "latency" time. 回答3: Imagine that you