examples

Purpose of the examples

This directory contains various examples of SLOs compliant to the OpenSLO specification with additional context. You can use it as a supplement for spec to explain more sophisticated features with concrete examples and additional goal oriented description. It provides additional context to show how specific features can be used in real-world scenarios. It can provide practical knowledge and inspiration for defining own SLOs.

Note: the example YAML files in examples are from github.com/OpenSLO/OpenSLO which is available under the Apache 2.0 license. This moduel adds Go representations with automated tests.

Contribution guildline

Present real-world use cases with additional context. Please include not only definitions but also a detailed description.

In the description at least try to answer the following questions.

• What do you measure?
• Why do you measure this?
• How it helps you/team/company/users, etc?

Links to other resources like literature are highly appreciated.

Table of contents

• Budgeting method - compares Occurrences, Timeslices and RatioTimeslices in terms of burned budget for hypothetical situation

• Treat low traffic equally important - some systems have to maintain high reliability no matter if a handful or hundreds of people actively use it.