Question

You manage the lifecycle of an internal reporting API that has been in production for three years. Over the last two quarters, request volume has dropped by 95%, the remaining traffic comes from a single deprecated dashboard, and the team continues to spend significant on-call effort maintaining its SLOs. Leadership asks you to apply SRE service-lifecycle practices to decide the service's future. Which action best reflects sound SRE lifecycle management?

Accepted Answer

Confirm remaining consumers, plan a formal deprecation and turndown that migrates the last dashboard, then decommission the service to eliminate ongoing toil.

Answer

Tighten the SLO to more nines so the low-traffic service appears healthier and justifies keeping it running as-is.

Answer

Leave the service untouched but disable its alerting so on-call stops being paged while traffic remains.

Answer

Increase the error budget arbitrarily so the team can defer all maintenance indefinitely without any migration plan.