Joe Blubaugh

Conf42: DevOps 2023

Don't get out of bed for anything less than an SLO

Bad on-call shifts make developers burn out and quit jobs. Noisy alerts that don't mean anything give us the worst kind of on-call fatigue. Is the site still up? Then who cares if CPU usage is high? Service Level Objectives make alerts meaningful by measuring what really matters in your system. Understanding and monitoring the critical operations that users rely on can give you the...