slogen

CLI tool to generate SLO dashboards, monitors & scheduled views from OpenSLO configs. Currently only supports sumo as data source and target.

For a given config it will create the following content via sumo terraform provider

• Scheduled view to generate the aggregated SLI data
• Dashboards to track availability, burn rate and budget remaining
• monitors : Multi-Window, Multi-BurnRate
• Global dashboard, to track availability across all services in a single view
• The content are grouped into folders of the service they belong to
• slice & dice SLI data in view to create custom reports by metadata (e.g. availability by customers, region)

sample config

apiVersion: openslo/v1alpha
kind: SLO
metadata:
  displayName: SLO descriptive name
  name: slo-minimal-name   # only '-' is allowed apart from alphanumeric chars, '-' not allowed in start or end
spec:
  service: my-service
  description: slo description to be added in dashboard text panel
  budgetingMethod: Occurrences
  objectives:
    - ratioMetrics:
        total: # sumo query to filter out all the messages counting requests for this slo
          source: sumologic
          queryType: Logs
          query: '_sourceCategory=my-service | where api_path="/login"'
        good: # condition to filter out healthy request/events
          source: sumologic
          queryType: Logs
          query: '(responseTime) < 500 and (statusCode matches /[2-3][0-9]{2}/ )'
        incremental: true
      displayName: delay less than 350
      target: 0.98
fields: # fields from log to retain
  region: "aws_region"    # log field as it is
  deployment: 'if(isNull(deployment),"dev",deployment)' # using an expression
labels:
  tier: 0                 # static labels to include in SLI view, that are not present in the log messages
burnRateAlerts: # Multiwindow, Multi-Burn-Rate Alerts, explained here https://sre.google/workbook/alerting-on-slos/ 
  - shortWindow: '10m' # the smaller window
    shortLimit: 14  # limit for the burn rate ratio, 14 denotes the error consumed in the window were 14 times the allowed number  
    longWindow: '1h'
    longLimit: 14
    notifications: # one or more notification channels
      - connetionType: 'Email'
        recipients: 'youremailid@email.com'
        triggerFor:
          - Warning
          - ResolvedWarning
      - connetionType: 'PagerDuty'
        connectionID: '1234abcd'  # id of pagerduty connection created in sumo
        triggerFor:
          - Critical
          - ResolvedCritical

Getting the tool

install with go1.17 as go install github.com/agaurav/slogen@latest

latest golang release can be installed by using the directions here : https://github.com/udhos/update-golang#usage. Add $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH.

It can be done with

export PATH=`go env GOPATH`/bin:$PATH

Get the latest binary from release page and put it in a directory in your $PATH (e.g. $HOME/.local/bin )

wget -O - https://github.com/agaurav/slogen/releases/download/v0.5.2/slogen_0.5.2_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz | tar xvz -C /path/to/bin

Using the tool

Set the sumologic auth as ENV variables as required by the terraform provider:

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create the yaml config for the SLO. more samples based on real data.

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validate the configs as (you can also pass the path to the entire dir to validate the files in it.)

slogen validate path/to/config

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run the tool to generate the terraform files and apply them (you can remove the --apply to just generate the files)

slogen path/to/config --apply

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for further details run slogen help

Usage:
slogen [paths to yaml config]... [flags]
slogen [command]

Examples:
slogen service/search.yaml 
slogen ~/team-a/slo/ ~/team-b/slo ~/core/slo/login.yaml 
slogen ~/team-a/slo/ -o team-a/tf
slogen ~/team-a/slo/ -o team-a/tf --apply 

Available sub-commands:
help          Help about any command 
new           create a sample config from given profile 
validate      config is as per OpesSLO standards and has valid values.
completion    generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell 
docs          A brief description of your command 

Flags:
-o, --out string        :   output directory where to create the terraform files (default "tf")
-d, --dashboardFolder   :   string output directory where to create the terraform files (default "slogen-tf-dashboards")
-m, --monitorFolder     :   string output directory where to create the terraform files (default "slogen-tf-monitors")
-i, --ignoreErrors      :   whether to continue validation even after encountering errors 
-p, --plan              :   show plan output after generating the terraform config 
-a, --apply             :   apply the generated terraform config as well 
-c, --clean             :   clean the old tf files for which openslo config were not found in the path args 
-h, --help              :   help for slogen


Use "slogen [command] --help" for more information about a command. Example config with inline comment explaining the
various fields

Where are the content created

• Dashboards by default are created in a folder slogen-tf-dashboards. A different folder can be set with the flag -d or --dashboardFolder followed by name of the folder. It will take some time for historical data to be calculated for new views for dashboards to be accurate.
• Monitors by default are created in a folder slogen-tf-monitors. A different folder can be set with the flag -m or --monitorFolder followed by name of the folder.
• Scheduled view are created with a prefix slogen_tf_, this can't be changed as of now.
• SLO Overview dashboard is created at the root of Dashboard folder specified.

Limitations

• as of now only supports Sumologic Logs as data source and content target.
• Only Occurrences based budgetingMethod is handled. support for Timeslices is work in progress.
• Alerting on SLO, burn-rate can be configured only up-to 24h. Tracking them via dashboard is still possible for up-to 31 days.