Create Error budget policies form

  • Release version: Xanadu
  • Updated August 1, 2024
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  • Create an SLO, an SLI, and Error budget policies to help you and your team track your service health and take necessary actions when required.

    Error budget policies form

    Set up your error budget policies form. For more information, see Create SLO, SLI, and Error budget policies.

    Table 1. Error budget policies form
    Field Description
    Threshold for
    • Burn rate (count): Percentage rate at which an error budget is consumed.
    • Error budget remaining (%): Percentage of error budget left to spend for the specified period.
      Note:
      Burn rate and Error budget remaining values support up to 4 decimal places and then round up.

      You can add multiple thresholds for a policy. But you can't add duplicate thresholds. If you try adding duplicate thresholds, you see an error message.

    Threshold value
    • For Burn rate: The Ideal burn rate is 1 or below because it indicates that the error budget is being consumed at an expected pace. The threshold is breached when the burn rate is equal to or greater than the specified value.
    • For Error budget remaining: The threshold is breached if the percentage remaining is equal to or less than what is specified.
    If threshold is breached then Action you want to take when a breach occurs.
    • Create incident
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