SLI’s and SLO’s, Explained

• Wednesday 2 September, 2020
• 17:00 CEST / 16:00 BST / 11:00 EDT
• Delivered over Zoom

In this free training taster session, Elieser Pereira, a Customer Reliability Engineer at Container Solutions, will explain SLIs and SLOs, vital metrics for keeping an organisation’s platform running reliably.

SLIs, or Service Level Indicators, are the key measurements of the availability of a system. SLOs, or Service Level Objectives, are the goals we set for how much availability we expect out of that system. Elieser will discuss the meaning of these metrics and the role they play in Site Reliability Engineering. 

Key takeaways

• An understanding of the importance of measuring service reliability
• The connection between SLIs, SLOs and SLAs

Who should attend?

• Operations engineers
• Engineering team leads
• Engineering managers of IT teams who want to gain a working knowledge of how they can better understand the reliability of their systems.

You will need

• A basic knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) will be helpful

• Basic knowledge of Cloud Native concepts and system administration.

Meet your trainer

Elieser Pereira is a Customer Reliability Engineer at Container Solutions. He has previously worked as a DevOps engineer with a background in building CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins with Groovy, and complementing automation with shell scripting. Besides SRE, he has experience with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Istio, Bash, and Jenkins. He also enjoys open source, exercise, and discovering new places.