SLOs and Alerts
Indicators, targets, error budgets, burn-rate alerting, what an alert must contain, and who gets woken up.
10 lessons · about 85 minutes
What you'll go through
- 01The CPU alert fired and nobody cared8 min
- 02Picking the one number that says whether it works8 min
- 03100% is the wrong target, and not by a little9 min
- 04How much you are allowed to break this month9 min
- 05Half the budget gone in an hour9 min
- 06The alert that fires every night and gets acknowledged in its sleep8 min
- 07Woken up by a message that explains nothing8 min
- 08Not everything deserves a phone call at four in the morning8 min
- 09The dashboard you can read in ten seconds8 min
- 10Putting an SLO on a real service, end to end10 min
Included in this pack
Observability — Metrics, logs and traces; SLOs and alerts; and what to do during an incident. Three courses, 30 lessons.
Also in this pack
Metrics, Logs and Traces
What each signal answers, why percentiles beat averages, how histograms work, and where cardinality and sampling send the bill.
10 lessons · ~85 min$19.90
Incident Response
The first five minutes, blast radius, cascades, graphs that mislead, partial failures, mitigation, communication and the post-mortem.
10 lessons · ~90 min$19.90