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Defining good SLOs

Service level objectives that reflect user pain, not vanity metrics.

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Pick SLIs from the user’s perspective

Latency and error rate on the paths users actually hit.

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Set a target that allows an error budget

100% is the wrong target — it forbids all change.

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Measure over a rolling window (e.g. 28 days)
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Alert on burn rate, not raw thresholds
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Service level objectives that reflect user pain, not vanity metrics.

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