How to Extract SLOs: Sources and Tools of Midband SRE Gnomes
summary
Explains practical ways to obtain and implement SLOs (Service Level Objectives) for teams that already understand SLI/SLO concepts. Covers sources of SLO targets and the tools and engineering practices (for developers and SREs) to collect metrics and enforce SLOs in production.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:14What are SLOs
- 6:20Personal journey
- 9:49Theory versus reality
- 11:55Documenting SLOs
- 15:06Custom SLO docs
- 19:15Monitoring SLOs
- 23:06Better SLO dashboards
- 26:40Alerting and error budgets
- 27:42Automating SLO specs
- 29:30Handling duplicate names
- 31:14Resetting error budgets
- 33:44Versioning SLOs
- 34:45Ready-to-use SLOs
- 35:28Q&A
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