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Date Published
Author
Chris Cooney
Word count
1835
Language
English
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None

Summary

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are essential in modern software engineering for setting realistic uptime goals and fostering experimentation without compromising user experience. SLOs consist of components such as time windows, error budgets, and Service Level Indicators (SLIs), which help teams track their compliance with these objectives over specific periods. Alerts based on SLOs are vital because they proactively inform teams when they're at risk of breaching their SLOs, allowing them to focus on urgent issues. Coralogix enhances SLO alerting by offering specialized alerts for both error budgets and burn rates, enabling teams to detect issues early and prioritize responses effectively. Burn rate alerts are particularly useful for catching rapid changes in error budget consumption, while error budget alerts focus on cumulative risk. To mitigate the potential noise from proactive alerts, Coralogix employs dual-window alerting, which uses shorter and longer time frames to ensure alerts reflect ongoing issues accurately. This approach helps operators match the alert lifecycle with the problem's lifecycle, thus supporting high-quality, autonomous decision-making and maintaining superior service quality without stifling innovation.