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Error Budget Concept

Error Budget Concept

Feb 10, 20261 min read

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Error Budget Concept

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The allowed unreliability of a service, calculated as 1 minus the SLO target. A 99.9% SLO means a 0.1% error budget. This reframes reliability as a finite resource that can be “spent” on deployments, experiments, and migrations, creating a shared framework between product and SRE teams.

Key Properties

  • Budget Calculation
  • Budget as Currency
  • Shared Accountability

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