Beginning with SRE

This post is an introduction into some basic SRE practices we have been implementing at my company recently.

I’ve written before on SRE, including on SRE resources, SLIs, SLOs and SLAs, and Creating an SRE team, but this is a more practical guide to getting started.

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Tags: servicelevelagreements, sitereliabilityengineering, sla, sli, slo, sre, thesrebook

Is Apdex useful?

I’ve been trying to figure out what SLOs to define for some services recently, and wondering if Apdex is a useful metric. (See my previous post on the difference between SLIs, SLOs and SLAs)

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Tags: apdex, applicationperformanceindex, sitereliabilityengineering, slo, SLOs, sre

SLI, SLO and SLA

What are SLIs, SLOs and SLAs? 

Service Level Indicators (SLIs) are metrics that you choose to measure the health and performance of your services. Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are the desired target for those indicators. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) build on this and include the consequences of not meeting those targets. All are fundamental to Site Reliability Engineering.

In this post, I’ll try to explain each in more detail, how they relate to each other, and some examples of each.

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Tags: seekingsrebook, servicelevelagreements, sitereliabilityengineering, sla, SLAs, sli, SLIs, slo, SLOs, sre, thesrebook