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Four Golden Signals

Four Golden Signals

Feb 10, 20261 min read

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Four Golden Signals

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Google SRE’s framework for monitoring distributed systems: Latency (time to serve a request), Traffic (demand on the system), Errors (rate of failed requests), and Saturation (how full the system is). If you can only measure four things, measure these.

Key Properties

  • Latency Measurement
  • Traffic Volume
  • Error Rates
  • System Saturation

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