Question

A retail company's platform team is adopting Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices. Leadership wants a way to formally define the level of reliability that the checkout service must deliver to customers, so that engineering and business stakeholders share a common, measurable reliability target. Which SRE concept should the team define first?

Accepted Answer

A Service Level Objective (SLO) that specifies a target reliability threshold for the checkout service

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A committed use discount for the checkout service's Compute Engine instances

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A budget alert that notifies finance when checkout infrastructure spending exceeds a threshold

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A carbon footprint report measuring the emissions of the checkout service