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Service Dependency Budgeting

Track dependency costs and limits

Dependency budgets monitor call volume, quotas, latency, error budgets, and cost per upstream, with alerts and fallbacks when limits approach to keep services stable and predictable.

Instrument

Track calls, latency, errors, and spend per dependency.

Set Budgets

Define quotas/error budgets and thresholds for action.

Respond

Add fallbacks or circuit breakers when limits approach.

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