POST /s/{spaceId}/api/observability/slos
Api key auth Basic auth

You must have all privileges for the SLOs feature in the Observability section of the Kibana feature privileges.

Headers

  • kbn-xsrf string Required

    Cross-site request forgery protection

Path parameters

  • spaceId string Required

    An identifier for the space. If /s/ and the identifier are omitted from the path, the default space is used.

application/json

Body Required

  • artifacts object

    Links to related assets for the SLO

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    • dashboards array[object]

      Array of dashboard references

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      • id string Required

        Dashboard saved-object id

  • budgetingMethod string Required

    The budgeting method to use when computing the rollup data.

    Values are occurrences or timeslices.

  • description string Required

    A description for the SLO.

  • groupBy string | array[string]

    optional group by field or fields to use to generate an SLO per distinct value

    One of:
    string-1 string array-2 array[string]
  • id string

    A optional and unique identifier for the SLO. Must be between 8 and 36 chars

  • indicator object Required

    One of:
    Custom Query object APM availability object APM latency object Custom metric object Histogram indicator object Timeslice metric object
  • name string Required

    A name for the SLO.

  • objective object Required

    Defines properties for the SLO objective

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    • target number Required

      the target objective between 0 and 1 excluded

      Minimum value is 0, maximum value is 100.

    • timesliceTarget number

      the target objective for each slice when using a timeslices budgeting method

      Minimum value is 0, maximum value is 100.

    • timesliceWindow string

      the duration of each slice when using a timeslices budgeting method, as {duraton}{unit}

  • settings object

    Defines properties for SLO settings.

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    • frequency string

      The interval between checks for changes in the source data. The minimum value is 1m and the maximum is 59m. The default value is 1 minute.

      Default value is 1m.

    • preventInitialBackfill boolean

      Start aggregating data from the time the SLO is created, instead of backfilling data from the beginning of the time window.

      Default value is false.

    • syncDelay string

      The time delay in minutes between the current time and the latest source data time. Increasing the value will delay any alerting. The default value is 1 minute. The minimum value is 1m and the maximum is 359m. It should always be greater then source index refresh interval.

      Default value is 1m.

    • syncField string

      The date field that is used to identify new documents in the source. It is strongly recommended to use a field that contains the ingest timestamp. If you use a different field, you might need to set the delay such that it accounts for data transmission delays. When unspecified, we use the indicator timestamp field.

  • tags array[string]

    List of tags

  • timeWindow object Required

    Defines properties for the SLO time window

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    • duration string Required

      the duration formatted as {duration}{unit}. Accepted values for rolling: 7d, 30d, 90d. Accepted values for calendar aligned: 1w (weekly) or 1M (monthly)

    • type string Required

      Indicates weither the time window is a rolling or a calendar aligned time window.

      Values are rolling or calendarAligned.

Responses

  • 200 application/json

    Successful request

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    • id string Required
  • 400 application/json

    Bad request

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    • error string Required
    • message string Required
    • statusCode number Required
  • 401 application/json

    Unauthorized response

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    • error string Required
    • message string Required
    • statusCode number Required
  • 403 application/json

    Forbidden response

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    • error string Required
    • message string Required
    • statusCode number Required
  • 409 application/json

    Conflict - The SLO id already exists

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    • error string Required
    • message string Required
    • statusCode number Required
POST /s/{spaceId}/api/observability/slos 
curl \
 --request POST 'https://localhost:5601/s/default/api/observability/slos' \
 --header "Authorization: $API_KEY" \
 --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
 --header "kbn-xsrf: string" \
 --data '{"name":"My Service Availability","tags":["production","web-service"],"settings":{"frequency":"5m","syncDelay":"5m"},"indicator":{"type":"sli.kql.custom","params":{"good":"request.status_code : \"2xx\"","index":"logs-*","total":"request.status_code : *","filter":"field.environment : \"production\" and service.name : \"my-service\"","timestampField":"@timestamp"}},"objective":{"target":0.99},"timeWindow":{"type":"rolling","duration":"30d"},"description":"Availability of my web service measured by successful HTTP responses","budgetingMethod":"occurrences"}'
Request example 
{
  "name": "My Service Availability",
  "tags": [
    "production",
    "web-service"
  ],
  "settings": {
    "frequency": "5m",
    "syncDelay": "5m"
  },
  "indicator": {
    "type": "sli.kql.custom",
    "params": {
      "good": "request.status_code : \"2xx\"",
      "index": "logs-*",
      "total": "request.status_code : *",
      "filter": "field.environment : \"production\" and service.name : \"my-service\"",
      "timestampField": "@timestamp"
    }
  },
  "objective": {
    "target": 0.99
  },
  "timeWindow": {
    "type": "rolling",
    "duration": "30d"
  },
  "description": "Availability of my web service measured by successful HTTP responses",
  "budgetingMethod": "occurrences"
}
Response examples (200) 
{
  "id": "8853df00-ae2e-11ed-90af-09bb6422b258"
}
Response examples (400) 
{
  "error": "Bad Request",
  "message": "Invalid value 'foo' supplied to: indicator/type",
  "statusCode": 400
}
Response examples (401) 
{
  "error": "Unauthorized",
  "message": "security_exception: unable to authenticate user for REST request [/api/observability/slos]",
  "statusCode": 401
}
Response examples (403) 
{
  "error": "Forbidden",
  "message": "security_exception: action [slo_write] is unauthorized for user",
  "statusCode": 403
}
Response examples (409) 
{
  "error": "Conflict",
  "message": "SLO [d077e940-1515-11ee-9c50-9d096392f520] already exists",
  "statusCode": 409
}