Define an SLO and error budget in Prometheus using recording rules and Grafana SLO plugin

domain: grafana.com · 6 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. Install the Grafana SLO plugin (grafana-slo-app) from the plugin catalog and enable it in grafana.ini
  2. Create a Prometheus recording rule that computes a ratio metric for your good-event and total-event counters over a rolling window
  3. In the Grafana SLO UI (or via the SLO HTTP API at /api/plugins/grafana-slo-app/resources/v1/slo), POST a JSON body specifying the slo name, description, target ratio, and the query expressions for ratio or threshold objectives
  4. Verify the plugin auto-generates recording rules and alert rules in the configured ruler backend (Grafana-managed or Mimir ruler)
  5. Open the auto-created SLO dashboard to inspect error budget burn over the chosen compliance window (default 30 days)
  6. Tune the alerting thresholds by updating the SLO object and re-POSTing; confirm new alert rules appear in the Alertmanager

Known gotchas

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