Awesome SLOs

A curated list of useful resources for SLIs/SLOs

Contents

• Books
• Articles
• Videos
• Podcasts
• Tools

Books

• The Site Reliability Workbook
  • Chapter 2 - Implementing SLOs
  • Chapter 3 - SLO Engineering Case Studies
  • Chapter 4 - Monitoring
  • Chapter 5 - Alerting on SLOs
  • Chapter 6 - Eliminating Toil
• Implementing Service Level Objectives: A Practical Guide to SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets

Articles

• Alerting on SLOs like Pros
• Prometheus: Apdex alerting
• Application Performance Index – Apdex Technical Specification
• How to choose Apdex T: the final word
• The SLO Development Lifecycle
• SLOs eased
• Origin of Service Level Objectives
• SLO vs. SLA - Explained
• SLO formulas implementation in PromQL step by step
• SLO
• Multi tier SLO
• SLO: Elastic vs Datadog vs Grafana

Videos

• SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, oh my! (class SRE implements DevOps)
• Risk and Error Budgets (class SRE implements DevOps)
• LISA18 - SLO Burn—Reducing Alert Fatigue and Maintenance Cost in Systems of Any Size
• Alerting on error budget burn rate
• How to Include Latency in SLO-Based Alerting
• SLOconf: Should SLOs be request-based or time-based? why neither really works
• SLOconf 2022: Fred Moyer- Don't chase percentiles use histograms if you want precision SLO latency
• SLOconf: GitLab's journey to SLO Monitoring - by Andrew Newdigate
• SLOconf 2022: Andrew Newdigate & Bob Van Landuyt - Everyone can contribute to our SLO
• New Relic APM Tutorial: Understanding Apdex

Podcasts

• Why SLOs are MVPs in observability

Tools

• OpenSLO
• Sloth
• PromTools
• slo-generator
• pyrra
• Service Level Calculator