Beeswarm · Diagram Design
The median hides the tail
The median hides the tail
Beeswarm of 138 per-request latency samples for one checkout endpoint on a shared linear value axis from zero; vertical spread is packing only and carries no value, and three requests past 380 ms form the p99 tail.
PER-REQUEST LATENCY, MS
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REQ-77D3
REQ-09AA
REQ-4C1F
LEGEND
ONE DOT = ONE REQUEST · VALUE AXIS 0–440 MS, LINEAR FROM ZERO · VERTICAL SPREAD IS PACKING, NOT A VALUE · ILLUSTRATIVE FIGURES, NOT MEASURED TRAFFIC
req-4c1f · focal, the slowest request in the window
request · vertical offset is packing only