LABINTERMEDIATE

Implementing Service Level Objectives for Platforms

Define and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for your Kubernetes platform services.

45 minutes
platform-engineering/sre
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Lab Overview

This hands-on lab teaches you to implement Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for platform reliability management.

You'll learn to:

  • Define Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for platform services
  • Create SLO definitions using Prometheus recording rules
  • Configure burn rate alerts for SLO violations
  • Build SLO dashboards for stakeholder visibility
  • Implement error budget policies

SLOs are essential for platform engineering teams to balance reliability with feature velocity and communicate service health to stakeholders.

What You'll Learn

Define SLIs for platform services

Create SLO recording rules in Prometheus

Configure burn rate alerts

Build SLO visibility dashboards

Prerequisites

kubernetes-fundamentals

prometheus-basics

monitoring-concepts

Technologies Covered

slosliprometheusgrafanareliabilitysrecnpe

Part of a Course

This lab is part of the Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineer (CNPE) course

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