A Prometheus p95 alert can cross a 300 ms service-level objective even when the exact 95th observation is 290 ms. The alert may be mathematically consistent and operationally misleading: histogram_quantile() only knows cumulative bucket counts, so it estimates where the requested rank sits inside a bucket. A ...

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