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To define SLI and SLO targets for a multi-service system, establish service level indicators and reliability objectives, then generate SLO documents and burn-rate policies to govern production reliability and track error budgets.

An error budget burn-rate policy tracks how quickly your service consumes its allowed failure threshold against SLOs. You need it to configure alerts and dashboards that trigger incident response before customer impact occurs.

To conduct a production readiness review for a canary release, apply SLO governance rules across capacity planning and dependency mapping, then generate PRR checklists to validate release reliability and failure mode mitigation.

Yes, you can use SRE practices for incident response by creating dependency maps and runbooks tailored for on-call mitigation. This protects customer impact by applying established SLO rules during active incident mitigation.

The best way to plan capacity and map failure modes across services is to apply defined SLO targets to dependency maps, ensuring your multi-service systems maintain production readiness and reduce ongoing operational toil.