Monitoring & Reliability
Monitoring & Reliability
Knowing when something breaks: uptime checks, logs, metrics and traces, SLOs and error budgets, and incident response.
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16 min
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Intermediate
3 guidesLogs, metrics and traces: what each one tells you
Logs, metrics and traces answer different questions about a running system. How each works, how trace IDs connect them, and what each costs to collect and keep.
4 min read
SLIs, SLOs and SLAs explained, with error budgets
SLIs, SLOs and SLAs defined with examples, how to pick an SLI, error budget math (99.9% over 30 days allows 43.2 minutes) and what an SLA adds.
3 min read
Incident management: roles, updates and blameless reviews
How to run an incident from detection to review: severity levels, the incident commander and other roles, updates for users, timelines and blameless follow-ups.
3 min read
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