slo-sli-error-budgets

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps teams define, measure, and manage the reliability of their services using Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets, preventing service degradation and balancing development velocity with stability.

Core Features & Use Cases

• SLI Definition: Provides examples and structure for defining key metrics like availability, latency, throughput, and freshness.
• SLO Target Setting: Offers guidance and a table for setting realistic SLO targets based on user expectations and dependencies.
• Error Budget Management: Explains how to calculate and utilize error budgets, including policy examples for different budget states (healthy, caution, critical, exhausted).
• Implementation Guidance: Outlines steps for defining SLIs, setting SLOs, and configuring alerts.
• Review Processes: Includes templates for weekly and quarterly SLO reviews.
• Use Case: A software team wants to ensure their new API remains highly available. They use this skill to define an availability SLI (e.g., 99.9% successful requests), set an SLO target, and establish an error budget policy that dictates deployment speed based on remaining budget.

Quick Start

Use the slo-sli-error-budgets skill to define an availability SLI for your service.