Defining and Alerting on SLOs

Few topics in the observability space are currently as exciting as the increased focus on service-level objectives (SLOs). The interest around SLOs has reached such a fever pitch that there is even an annual conference – SLOConf, started in 2021 – entirely dedicated to them. SLOs are intrinsically intertwined with observability technologies such as Prometheus, and learning how to utilize Prometheus data in your SLOs will help you take your Prometheus environment to a new level.

SLOs are a quintessential example of how observability and its associated telemetry provide direct business value – not just operational support. At their core, SLOs provide a consistent, measurable way to see how your services are performing at a high level. This simple, numeric measurement is ideal for executives and business leaders to be able to report on the health and reliability of the services they are ultimately responsible for. Since Prometheus...