SLOs, error budgets and alerting that people trust
Define SLIs and SLOs for an LLM service, compute error budgets, write multi-window burn-rate alerts in Prometheus, route by severity, keep alerts actionable with runbooks, and review them like code. Includes worked numbers and a one-page alerting policy.
17 min·Verified 2026-11Pro+50 XP
Alerts are a contract between your systems and the people who carry the pager. If the contract is bad (too many false alarms, too few real ones, no guidance on what to do), people stop trusting alerts, and the system's real problems are found by customers. Service level objectives give you a principled way to decide what deserves a page.
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