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Date Published
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Meghan Jordan
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1086
Language
English
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None

Summary

Meghan Jordan discusses the importance of service level objectives (SLOs) in site reliability engineering and how Datadog enables teams to track, manage, and monitor their SLOs in one place. SLOs provide a framework for defining clear targets around application performance, which ultimately help teams provide a consistent customer experience, balance feature development with platform stability, and improve communication with internal and external users. Datadog's features allow users to search, sort, and filter all their SLOs, easily visualize the status of individual SLOs on application dashboards, and track real-time performance comparisons to established objectives. Additionally, Datadog provides a comprehensive view of SLOs across multiple products and teams, allows users to save queries as views, displays error budgets and SLO status at a glance, breaks down SLO status by tags, and visualizes SLO status on dashboards.