Use this when a user asks what an outage or incident cost, or wants to calculate the financial impact of downtime. Takes hourly revenue, downtime duration, and affected percentage. Returns revenue impact, engineering cost, and total incident cost in dollars.

post/calculate/incident-cost-calculator

Request

  • Base URL: https://utility-matrix.com
  • URL: https://utility-matrix.com/calculate/incident-cost-calculator
  • Auth: none declared

Request body

hourly_revenuenumber required

hourly revenue used by the calculation; monetary values are in USD unless stated otherwise.

downtime_hoursnumber required

downtime in hours.

affected_pctnumber

affected expressed as a percentage.

respondersnumber

responders used by this deterministic tool.

eng_hourlynumber

eng hourly used by this deterministic tool.

Example request

{
  "hourly_revenue": 1,
  "downtime_hours": 1,
  "affected_pct": 1,
  "responders": 1,
  "eng_hourly": 1
}

Response

Successful calculation

interpretationstring required

Human-readable interpretation of the result.

tool_urlstring required

Canonical browser URL for the corresponding calculator.

Changes

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