Cloud Computing · SRE

Site Reliability Engineering Terms

SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other core site reliability engineering concepts.

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What does SLI stand for?
Service Level Indicator
What does SLO stand for?
Service Level Objective
What does SLA stand for?
Service Level Agreement
What is an error budget?
The amount of downtime or failed requests allowed within an SLO period before violating the objective
What is availability?
The percentage of time a service is operational and responding to requests
What is latency?
The time delay between a user request and the system response
What does MTTR stand for?
Mean Time To Recovery
What does MTTF stand for?
Mean Time To Failure
What is toil?
Repetitive, manual operational work that does not add long-term value to the service
What is on-call?
Being available to respond to incidents and production issues outside normal business hours
What is a postmortem?
A structured analysis after an incident to identify root causes and prevent recurrence
What is blameless culture?
An organizational approach focused on understanding systems and processes rather than assigning individual blame for incidents
What is a runbook?
A documented guide with step-by-step procedures for handling a specific operational task or incident type
What is incident severity?
A classification level that indicates the impact and urgency of an incident
What is chaos engineering?
Testing system resilience by intentionally introducing failures in a controlled, non-production environment

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