SLIs and SLOs Demystified
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: WOW! eBook (April 25, 2025)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1835889387
- ISBN-13: 978-1835889381
eBook Description:
SLIs and SLOs Demystified: A workshop approach to building and maintaining your service level indicators and service level objectives. Master reliability engineering with SLIs and SLOs to optimize performance, enhance observability, and make data-driven decisions.
In today’s digital landscape, ensuring service reliability is more than just a necessity it’s a competitive advantage. SLIs and SLOs Demystified equips software engineers, SREs, and business leaders with the knowledge to build, measure, and manage service level indicators (SLIs) and service level objectives (SLOs) efficiently. Written by Alexandra F. McCoy an experienced site reliability engineer with over a decade of experience in the cloud and technology industry this book simplifies complex reliability concepts for engineers at all levels.
Starting with a review of reliability engineering basics, Alexandra provides a step-by-step approach to defining impactful SLIs, facilitating productive SLO discussions, and integrating observability into your monitoring strategy. You’ll also see how these principles apply to web applications, distributed systems, databases, and new features through real-world examples that can help you develop SLIs and SLOs for your specific environment. The book goes beyond implementation to explore the financial impact of reliability, alerting strategies, integration with incident management, and using error budgets for business decisions.
- Formulate and implement SLIs and SLOs for assessing and enhancing system reliability objectives
- Manage incidents proactively using observability and monitoring
- Create adequate reliability metrics for complex systems
- Refine incident response strategies to minimize associated risks
- Align reliability objectives with business and technical goals
- Implement strong reliability practices across multiple teams and services
- Integrate reliability engineering with DevOps and site reliability engineering practices
By the end of this SLIs and SLOs Demystified book, you’ll be able to drive operational excellence, minimize unplanned downtime, and optimize end user experiences with well-established reliability metrics.