Why SLOs are MVPs in observability

Discover why service level objectives are buzzworthy and changing how we do business.
Discover why service level objectives are buzzworthy and changing how we do business. Special guests include Parca software engineer Matthias Loibl, who co-created the open source SLO software Pyrra with Nadine Vehling, and Grafana Labs principal software engineer Bjorn "Beorn" Rabenstein, who we are trying to clone for the good of everyone's observability strategies. 

References discussed in this episode:
Google’s SRE site
Google's SRE book (SLOs are in Chapter 5)
Alerting on SLOs at Soundcloud blog post by Beorn Rabenstein
"Should SLOs be request-based or time-based? Why neither works" at SLOconf presented by Beorn Rabenstein
How to include latency in alert-based SLOs by Beorn Rabenstein
Implementing service level objectives
Pyrra project co-founded by Matthias Loibl and Nadine Vehling
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