SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets
Understand how to define and implement Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs). Learn to manage error budgets for reliability engineering.
Reliability Goals: SLOs & SLIs
Welcome! In this lesson, we'll dive into Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets. These are crucial concepts for defining and maintaining the reliability of your services.
Understanding them helps teams communicate expectations, prioritize work, and ensure a consistent user experience.
What are Service Level Indicators (SLIs)?
An SLI, or Service Level Indicator, is a quantitative measure of some aspect of the service you provide. Think of it as a direct measurement of your system's performance or behavior.
SLIs tell you how well your service is doing from a user's perspective. They are the raw data points we use to evaluate reliability.
All lessons in this course
- Correlating Logs, Metrics, Traces
- Anomaly Detection and AI Ops
- SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets
- The RED and USE Methods