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

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