If your uptime (or your percentage score in a class) is best understood/consumed... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		sokoloff on May 2, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Creating beautiful charts with JRuby and JFreeChar... If your uptime (or your percentage score in a class) is best understood/consumed on a chart with an origin of zero, you’re having a very bad time.

hinkley on May 2, 2025 | [–]

If you’re comparing your uptime before and after a fix, you’re lying to everyone by not showing the origin.

Also why are people looking at uptime unless there was an outage? At which point you do need to show zero anyway.

bmm6o on May 2, 2025 | [–]

What you should really track and chart is your downtime.

Consider applying for YC's Summer 2026 batch! Applications are open till May 4
Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact