During the term of the agreement under which Google has agreed to provide Google
Cloud Platform to Customer (as applicable, the "Agreement"), the Covered
Service will provide a Monthly Uptime Percentage to Customer as follows (the
"Service Level Objective" or "SLO"):
Covered Service
Monthly Uptime Percentage
Cloud Bigtable - Replicated Instance (2 or more clusters)
with Multi-Cluster routing policy
>= 99.99%
with Single-Cluster routing policy
>= 99.9%
Cloud Bigtable - Zonal instance (single cluster)
>= 99.9%
If Google does not meet the SLO, and if Customer meets its obligations under
this SLA, Customer will be eligible to receive the Financial Credits described
below. This SLA states Customer's sole and exclusive remedy for any failure by
Google to meet the SLO. Capitalized terms used in this SLA, but not defined in
this SLA, have the meaning given to them in the Agreement. If the Agreement
authorizes the resale or supply of Google Cloud Platform under a Google Cloud
partner or reseller program, then all references to Customer in this SLA mean
Partner or Reseller (as applicable), and any Financial Credit(s) will only apply
for impacted Partner or Reseller order(s) under the Agreement.
Definitions
The following definitions apply to the SLA:
"Back-off Requirements" means, when an error occurs, the Application is
responsible for waiting for a period of time. This means that after the first
error, there is a minimum back-off interval of 1 second and for each consecutive
error, the back-off interval increases exponentially up to 32 seconds.
"Covered Service" means Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Instance.
"Downtime" means more than a five percent Error Rate for a
Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Instance. Downtime is measured based on server
side Error Rate.
"Downtime Period" means a period of five consecutive minutes of Downtime
with a minimum of 60 requests per minute. Intermittent Downtime for a period of
less than five minutes will not be counted towards any Downtime Periods.
"Error Rate" means the number of Valid Requests that result in a response
with HTTP Status 50x and Code "Internal Error", "Unknown", or "Unavailable"
divided by the total number of Valid Requests during that period. Repeated
identical requests do not count towards the Error Rate unless they conform to
the Back-off Requirements.
"Financial Credit" means the following for Cloud Bigtable Replicated
Instances with Valid Requests using a Multi-Cluster routing policy:
Monthly Uptime Percentage
Percentage of monthly bill for Cloud Bigtable Replicated Instance
with Multi-Cluster routing policy which does not meet SLO that will
be credited to future monthly Customer bills
99.0% – < 99.99%
10%
95.0% – < 99.0%
25%
< 95.0%
50%
"Financial Credit" means the following for Cloud Bigtable Replicated
Instances with Valid Requests using a Single-Cluster routing policy and any
Valid Requests to Cloud Bigtable Zonal Instances:
Monthly Uptime Percentage
Percentage of monthly bill for Cloud Bigtable Replicated Instance
with Single-Cluster routing policy and Zonal Instances which do not
meet SLO that will be credited to future monthly Customer bills
99.0% – < 99.9%
10%
95.0% – < 99.0%
25%
< 95.0%
50%
"Monthly Uptime Percentage" means total number of minutes in a month,
minus the number of minutes of Downtime suffered from all Downtime Periods in a
month, divided by the total number of minutes in a month.
"Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Cluster" means a Cloud Bigtable Cluster
with 3 or more nodes provisioned.
"Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Instance" means a Cloud Bigtable Instance
that only contains Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Clusters.
"Replicated Instance" means a Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Instance
which contains 2 or more Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Clusters, with each
cluster in a different Zone of either the same Region or different Regions.
"Valid Requests" are requests
for a Replicated Instance using the Multi-Cluster routing policy and that
conform to the Documentation and that would normally result in a non-error
response.
for a Replicated Instance using a Single-Cluster routing policy that
conform to the Documentation and that would normally result in a non-error
response.
for a Zonal Instance that conform to the Documentation, and that would
normally result in a non-error response.
"Zonal Instance" means a Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Instance with one
Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Cluster.
Customer Must Request Financial Credit
In order to receive any of the Financial Credits described above, Customer must
notify Google technical
support within
thirty days from the time Customer becomes eligible to receive a Financial
Credit. Failure to comply with this requirement will forfeit Customer's right to
receive a Financial Credit.
Maximum Financial Credit
The aggregate maximum number of Financial Credits to be issued by Google to
Customer for any and all Downtime Periods that occur in a single billing month
will not exceed 50% of the amount due by Customer for the applicable Covered
Service for the applicable month. Financial Credits will be made in the form of
a monetary credit applied to future use of the Service and will be applied
within 60 days after the Financial Credit was requested.
SLA Exclusions
The SLA does not apply to any: (a) features or Services designated Alpha or Beta
(unless otherwise stated in the associated Documentation), (b) features or
Services excluded from the SLA (in the associated Documentation) or (c) errors:
(i) caused by factors outside of Google's reasonable control; (ii) that resulted
from Customer's software or hardware or third party software or hardware, or
both; (iii) that resulted from abuses or other behaviors that violate the
Agreement; or (iv) that resulted from quotas listed in the Admin Console.
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[View the current version](/bigtable/sla)\n\nDuring the term of the agreement under which Google has agreed to provide Google\nCloud Platform to Customer (as applicable, the \"Agreement \"), the Covered\nService will provide a Monthly Uptime Percentage to Customer as follows (the\n\"Service Level Objective \" or \"SLO\"):\n\nIf Google does not meet the SLO, and if Customer meets its obligations under\nthis SLA, Customer will be eligible to receive the Financial Credits described\nbelow. This SLA states Customer's sole and exclusive remedy for any failure by\nGoogle to meet the SLO. Capitalized terms used in this SLA, but not defined in\nthis SLA, have the meaning given to them in the Agreement. If the Agreement\nauthorizes the resale or supply of Google Cloud Platform under a Google Cloud\npartner or reseller program, then all references to Customer in this SLA mean\nPartner or Reseller (as applicable), and any Financial Credit(s) will only apply\nfor impacted Partner or Reseller order(s) under the Agreement.\n\nDefinitions\n-----------\n\nThe following definitions apply to the SLA:\n\n- **\"Back-off Requirements\"** means, when an error occurs, the Application is responsible for waiting for a period of time. This means that after the first error, there is a minimum back-off interval of 1 second and for each consecutive error, the back-off interval increases exponentially up to 32 seconds.\n- **\"Covered Service\"** means Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Instance.\n- **\"Downtime\"** means more than a five percent Error Rate for a Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Instance. Downtime is measured based on server side Error Rate.\n- **\"Downtime Period\"** means a period of five consecutive minutes of Downtime with a minimum of 60 requests per minute. Intermittent Downtime for a period of less than five minutes will not be counted towards any Downtime Periods.\n- **\"Error Rate\"** means the number of Valid Requests that result in a response with HTTP Status 50x and Code \"Internal Error\", \"Unknown\", or \"Unavailable\" divided by the total number of Valid Requests during that period. Repeated identical requests do not count towards the Error Rate unless they conform to the Back-off Requirements.\n- **\"Financial Credit\"** means the following for Cloud Bigtable Replicated\n Instances with Valid Requests using a Multi-Cluster routing policy:\n\n- **\"Financial Credit\"** means the following for Cloud Bigtable Replicated\n Instances with Valid Requests using a Single-Cluster routing policy and any\n Valid Requests to Cloud Bigtable Zonal Instances:\n\n- **\"Monthly Uptime Percentage\"** means total number of minutes in a month,\n minus the number of minutes of Downtime suffered from all Downtime Periods in a\n month, divided by the total number of minutes in a month.\n\n- **\"Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Cluster\"** means a Cloud Bigtable Cluster\n with 3 or more nodes provisioned.\n\n- **\"Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Instance\"** means a Cloud Bigtable Instance\n that only contains Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Clusters.\n\n- **\"Region\"** means a region described at\n [https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/](/about/locations), as may be updated by\n Google from time to time.\n\n- **\"Replicated Instance\"** means a Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Instance\n which contains 2 or more Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Clusters, with each\n cluster in a different Zone of either the same Region or different Regions.\n\n- **\"Valid Requests\"** are requests\n\n - for a Replicated Instance using the Multi-Cluster routing policy and that conform to the Documentation and that would normally result in a non-error response.\n - for a Replicated Instance using a Single-Cluster routing policy that conform to the Documentation and that would normally result in a non-error response.\n - for a Zonal Instance that conform to the Documentation, and that would normally result in a non-error response.\n- **\"Zonal Instance\"** means a Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Instance with one\n Production-Grade Cloud Bigtable Cluster.\n\nCustomer Must Request Financial Credit\n--------------------------------------\n\nIn order to receive any of the Financial Credits described above, Customer must\n[notify Google technical\nsupport](https://support.google.com/cloud/contact/cloud_platform_sla) within\nthirty days from the time Customer becomes eligible to receive a Financial\nCredit. Failure to comply with this requirement will forfeit Customer's right to\nreceive a Financial Credit.\n\nMaximum Financial Credit\n------------------------\n\nThe aggregate maximum number of Financial Credits to be issued by Google to\nCustomer for any and all Downtime Periods that occur in a single billing month\nwill not exceed 50% of the amount due by Customer for the applicable Covered\nService for the applicable month. Financial Credits will be made in the form of\na monetary credit applied to future use of the Service and will be applied\nwithin 60 days after the Financial Credit was requested.\n\nSLA Exclusions\n--------------\n\nThe SLA does not apply to any: (a) features or Services designated Alpha or Beta\n(unless otherwise stated in the associated Documentation), (b) features or\nServices excluded from the SLA (in the associated Documentation) or (c) errors:\n(i) caused by factors outside of Google's reasonable control; (ii) that resulted\nfrom Customer's software or hardware or third party software or hardware, or\nboth; (iii) that resulted from abuses or other behaviors that violate the\nAgreement; or (iv) that resulted from quotas listed in the Admin Console.\n\n**Previous Versions**\n\n- [July 25, 2018](/bigtable/sla-20180725)\n- [June 15, 2016](/bigtable/sla-20160615)"]]
