SRE

What is an SLI (Service-Level Indicator)?

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

An SLI is a measurement used to assess the actual performance or reliability of a service. It serves as the basis for defining SLOs.

Examples:

  • Request latency
  • Processing throughput
  • Request failures per unit of time

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