SLO Articles

Kubernetes observability: SLO templates that turn alerts into error budgets
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Kubernetes observability: SLO templates that turn alerts into error budgets

Two bad rollouts burned 88% of a 30-day error budget while the SLI still read 99.56%. This post adds four SLO templates that bring burn-rate tracking to the OTel-based alert rules from Part 1, no new instrumentation required.

Agi K Thomas

Contextual AI: Stop pinging the SRE: three MCP tools that turn Elastic Agent Builder into your team's runbook
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Contextual AI: Stop pinging the SRE: three MCP tools that turn Elastic Agent Builder into your team's runbook

Build three MCP tools in Elastic Agent Builder that read endpoint health, recent deploys and SLO burn rate directly in your editor. Encode your platform team's runbook once; every developer gets self-serve production context without pinging an SRE.

Jeffrey Rengifo

Build better Service Level Objectives (SLOs) from logs and metrics
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Build better Service Level Objectives (SLOs) from logs and metrics

To help manage operations and business metrics, Elastic Observability's SLO (Service Level Objectives) feature was introduced in 8.12. This blog reviews this feature and how you can use it with Elastic's AI Assistant to meet SLOs.

Bahubali Shetti

How to enable Kubernetes alerting with Elastic Observability
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How to enable Kubernetes alerting with Elastic Observability

In the Kubernetes world, different personas demand different kinds of insights. In this post, we’ll focus on alerting and provide an overview of how alerts in Elastic Observability can help users quickly identify Kubernetes problems.

Christos Markou

Monitoring service performance: An overview of SLA calculation for Elastic Observability
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Monitoring service performance: An overview of SLA calculation for Elastic Observability

Elastic Stack provides many valuable insights for different users, such as reports on service performance and if the service level agreement (SLA) is met. In this post, we’ll provide an overview of calculating an SLA for Elastic Observability.

Philipp Kahr