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Burn Rate Alerts

Burn Rate Alerts

Feb 10, 20261 min read

  • sre
  • error-budgets
  • alerting

Burn Rate Alerts

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Alerts that fire when the error budget is being consumed faster than sustainable. Multi-window, multi-burn-rate alerting (as described in Google’s SRE Workbook) provides early warning of reliability problems by detecting both fast burns (incidents) and slow burns (gradual degradation).

Key Properties

  • Fast Burn Detection
  • Slow Burn Detection
  • Alert Sensitivity Tuning

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