percentile

statistics

Calculates the p-th percentile

Syntax

percentile(array|dataframe, p)

Parameters

array|dataframe (array or dataframe)

The data to calculate percentile from

p (number)

The percentile to calculate (between 0 and 1)

Returns

number

The value at the specified percentile

Examples

95th percentile response time
Input: 
.response_time | percentile(0.95)
Output: 
980
99th percentile revenue
Input: 
.revenue | percentile(0.99)
Output: 
125000

The percentile() function calculates the value at a specified percentile (p-th percentile) in your data. Percentiles divide the data into 100 equal parts.

Usage

Use percentile() for performance analysis, service level objectives (SLOs), and identifying threshold values in distributions.

Related Functions

quartile median min max