---
title: Percentile
order: 2
description: "A latency value at a given rank, interpolated from a histogram's buckets: p50 is the median, p95 and p99 are the tail that most latency budgets care about."
tags: [glossary, telemetry-and-health]
---

# Percentile

A latency value at a given rank, interpolated from a histogram's buckets: **p50**
is the median, **p95** and **p99** are the tail that most latency budgets care
about.

## Example

`magus status` prints each latency family with its percentiles.

```sh
magus status
```

## Used in

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## See also

- [Telemetry](../concepts/telemetry.md)
- [Latency](latency.md)