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I actually manage servers and network services, and am familiar with the importance of five nines uptime. It seems like this kind of an interface is a failure in that it provides quick information to most people but doesn't include information for people with disabilities. I think it would be beneficial to have that visual interface with color information but to also include information that showed bars of different heights and widths.
I understand that the direct inclusion of all of the numbers could clutter the interface and make it less easy to immediately tell uptime, but even without the numbers it seems that significant improvements could be made to the way this information is presented with this layout.
yeah it's not a great design. It could easily be a line graph where the the vertical axis is a log scale representation of each day's uptime . You'd still be able to tell at a glance which services are stable (top marks across the board) and which services have dips. you could even still have the line change colors when it dips below a certain range if you just really wanted colors on it. it would even zoom infinitely* since the horizontal axis can be arbitrary buckets of time, and the vertical axis is always 0%-100% uptime