Get started with Service Reliability Management

  • Release version: Xanadu
  • Updated August 1, 2024
  • 2 minutes to read

    • SRM accelerates your path to viewing service health in the context of service level objectives and incident resolution. Helps IT Operations and DevOps teams deliver on the promise of agility, performance, and uptime.

    Get started with SRM to understand what are the different sections on the SRM interface.

    For more information on roles, see SRM roles and responsibilities.

    Basic SRM tasks

    Step Description Reference
    Set up guide modules Our Setup guide modules for your Homepage, Services, and Teams landing pages show you how to add a team or a service. It includes all the key milestones to make sure you’re set up for success. Add an SRM team
    Your homepage Your home page is where you find the things most important to you. Like the Services with critical alerts and incidents, work assigned to you and your team. SRM home page
    Learn the ins-and-outs of SRM navigation. You can get familiar with the different sections and elements of the SRM interface. The sections and elements are used throughout our documentation. SRM interface

    SRM helps you when you must create and administer teams, services, and integrations.

    Table 1. SRM tasks
    Step Description See this

    Manage an application or technical service in SRM

    		 Define the basic tasks and parameters that make up your service and how it should behave. Add a service to SRM

    Set up a SRM team

    		 Set up a team. Teams are responsible for the issues that occur in the associated services. Add an SRM team

    Set up on-call schedule and escalation policies

    		 Create an on-call schedule for your team to ensure to ensure that dedicated support team members are available to resolve issues as they arise. You can set up an escalation policy for your team so that at least one team member is engaged in incident response. Create your SRM On-call schedule

    Configure service relationships

    		 Use a map canvas to add, configure, and arrange services. You can add child services that depend on parent services. For more information, see View impact of child service on parent service.

    Integrate services with third-party monitoring tools

    		 Set up a third-party integration, such as Datadog or ServiceNow Cloud Observability, with SRM so that alerts are available to your teams within SRM. Add an integration to SRM.

    Establish SLOs, SLIs & error budgets for services

    		 Establish goals for how well your service should operate. Also specify the maximum amount of time that a technical system can fail without contractual consequences. For more information, see Service Level Objective Management.
    Set up alert automations
    Note:
    This functionality is only available if you have installed the Alert automations application.
    		 Alert automations enable you to define alert conditions. Set up alert rules for each APM tool to define the conditions when the APM tool should send notifications to SRM. The Alert automation application is available from the ServiceNow Store.