Glossary

SLO vs. SLA (Service Level Objectives)

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An SLA is a legal agreement with a customer; an SLO is the internal target that the engineering and support teams aim for to ensure they never actually breach the legal SLA.

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What is the "Error Budget" in SLO management?

An error budget is the amount of service degradation (e.g., uptime) you can afford to lose before you must stop shipping new features and focus entirely on reliability to avoid an SLA breach.

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