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Posts and articles around Service Level Objectives. We cover everything you need to know about setting, measuring, and achieving SLOs to ensure your services meet the highest standards.

What is MTBI?

What is MTBI?

Everything you need to know about Mean Time Between Incidents (MTBI) and how it can help Site Reliability Engineers

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SLA vs SLO vs SLI - What's the difference

SLA vs SLO vs SLI - What's the difference

SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs—what’s the difference? For DevOps folks, understanding these nuances is key. Here's a quick guide to each term.

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A practical guide for implementing SLO

A practical guide for implementing SLO

How to set Service Level Objectives with 3 steps guide

Prathamesh Sonpatki, Saurabh Hirani

SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs: Understanding Key Service Metrics

SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs: Understanding Key Service Metrics

A guide to set practical Service Level Objectives (SLOs) & Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for your Site Reliability Engineering practices.

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Why Service Level Objectives?

Why Service Level Objectives?

Understanding how to measure the health of your servcie, benefits of using SLOs, how to set compliances and much more...

Piyush Verma

Choosing Effective SLIs

Choosing Effective SLIs

Practical advice to choose an effective SLI.

Akshay Chugh

The origin of Service Level Objectives

The origin of Service Level Objectives

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) dominate the software industry, but where did they come from?

Akshay Chugh, Piyush Verma

SLOs eased

SLOs eased

You can either love running or hate running, but you will definitely love this analogy - take a fresh look at SLOs!

Piyush Verma, Saurabh Hirani

Latency SLO

Latency SLO

How do you set latency-based alerts? A common approach is 95% of requests completed in 350ms, but is it really that simple?

Piyush Verma

SLOs: Impact on Development, Culture, and Performance

SLOs: Impact on Development, Culture, and Performance

Thanks to Service Level Objectives (SLOs), your teams have a numerical threshold for system availability, so everyone has a clear vision of what keeps the users and the business happy.

Akshat Goyal

Components in Designing Effective SLOs

Components in Designing Effective SLOs

A primer on how to design and implement effective Serice Level Objectives(SLOs)

Akshat Goyal

Saturation SLO: What It Is and Why You Should Consider It

Saturation SLO: What It Is and Why You Should Consider It

What is Saturation and why should you think about it as an SLO? Saturation can be understood as the load on your network and server resources.

Akshat Goyal

SLOs That Lie

SLOs That Lie

Understanding how SLOs can help improve your performance and How to set the right Service Level Objectives for your application

Piyush Verma

Latency Percentiles are Incorrect P99 of the Times

Latency Percentiles are Incorrect P99 of the Times

What are P90, P95, and P99 latency? Why are they incorrect P99 of the times? Latency is for a unit of time and the preferred aggregate is percentile.

Piyush Verma