DevOps & CI/CD

SLO Error Budget Burn Rate Alerting Flow

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Flowchart showing calculation of SLO error budget burn rate over long and short windows to decide whether to page on-call, create a ticket, or clear alert.
Flowchart showing calculation of SLO error budget burn rate over long and short windows to decide whether to page on-call, create a ticket, or clear alert.
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What it shows

  • Burn rate measures consumption speed: 14.4x consumes 2% of budget in 1 hour
  • Multi-window algorithms evaluate short (5m) and long (1h) windows together
  • Fast burns page immediately; slow burns create tickets before budget runs out

The takeaway

Multi-window burn rate alerts page only when budget consumption is severe enough to cause an outage.

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