If you’re struggling to turn “99.9% uptime” into something engineers can actually run, this guide breaks down SLI → SLO → Error Budgets in a practical, step-by-step way—so you can choose the right user-focused metrics, set realistic targets, and use error budgets to balance reliability with feature velocity (the core approach promoted in Google’s SRE guidance).
CloudOpsNow article:
https://www.cloudopsnow.in/sli-slo-error-budgets-create-slos-that-actually-work-step-by-step-with-real-examples/
Quick takeaway (engineer-friendly):
✅ Pick critical user journeys → define SLIs that reflect user experience (latency, availability, correctness)
✅ Set SLO targets + window (e.g., 30 days) and compute the error budget (for 99.9%, that’s ~43 minutes in 30 days)
✅ Track error budget burn and use it to drive decisions: ship faster when you’re healthy, slow down and fix reliability when you’re burning too fast
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