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Service Level Indicators

Choose meaningful SLIs

SLIs measure user-centric metrics like availability and latency; they underpin SLOs and error budgets for reliability engineering.

Pick User-Centric Metrics

Use request success, latency percentiles, and freshness users feel.

Define Precisely

Document paths, thresholds, and windows for each SLI.

Instrument

Emit metrics and segment by key dimensions for clarity.

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