3 articles tagged with SLO.
Reliability arguments used to be shouting matches between SRE and product. An error budget turned them into arithmetic. Here's how we made the number drive the roadmap.
Static thresholds and cause-based alerts produce noisy pages. Burn-rate alerting asks "are we burning the error budget faster than we can sustain?" and pages only when users are actually hurting.
Wrong SLI metrics mean green dashboards while users churn. The discipline of picking signals that move with what users actually feel, and the ones that look reliable but lie.
