Popular Service Level Indicators (SLIs):

  • Correctness
  • Availability
  • Throughput
  • Response Time ( p50, p99, etc)
  • Functional requirements describe the SLI for correctness.
  • Non-functional requirements describe the SLIs for availability, throughput, response time etc.

Service Level Objective (SLO):

  • A target value (or range) for an SLI. (e.g.: SLI target).
  • non-functional requirements for scaling, like - data size, bulky service time, geolocation, and data hotspots, to satisfy SLOs.

Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a contract with users on what the SLOs are, including the consequences of meeting/missing the SLOs. (e.g.: penalty/rebate).


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