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The SRE Manifesto

Site Reliability Engineering Practice

Observability Golden Signals

Practice code Practice area(s) Practice name Practice description Practice applicability Practice technology(ies) Implementation steps
OBS100 [x] Observability Observability Golden Signals Use golden signals to detect end-user symptoms for systems and platforms Applicable to any industry or system Application performance monitoring; synthetic user monitoring 1. Define service level indicators (SLIs) for latency, error rate, traffic, and saturation for each critical end-user service; 2. Measure SLIs through the monitoring platform; 3. Establish the SLOs based on the process behavior and business requirements.

Source: Google Book - Site Reliability Engineering

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