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SLA (Service Level Agreement)

99.9% uptime sounds great — until you read what counts as downtime.

SLAs promise performance — but the devil is in the exclusions, measurement windows, and remedies. BrieflyGo dissects every metric, exclusion, and credit clause so you know what you’re actually getting and what compensation you’re owed when things go wrong.

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What the report finds

1Uptime and availability targets
2Measurement methodology and windows
3Excluded downtime categories
4Response time and resolution time tiers
5Service credit calculation and caps
6Escalation and support ticket procedures
7Termination rights on repeated SLA breaches
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Risks that can be hidden in this document

Scheduled maintenance exclusions

Unlimited scheduled downtime windows mean 99.9% can still mean hours offline per week.

Credit caps

Total credits capped at 10% of monthly fee — far less than the cost of an outage to your business.

Sole remedy clause

Service credits are your only remedy — you waive the right to claim actual damages from downtime.

Monthly vs annual window

Annual SLA of 99.9% allows 8.7 hours downtime per year in a single incident — in one month.

What you gain after scanning

Know exactly what "uptime" means in practice
Understand what credits you are owed after an incident
Compare SLA quality across vendors objectively
Negotiate stronger penalty clauses before signing

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