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To define SLI and SLO targets, you establish measurable Service Level Indicators like availability and latency, then set target objectives such as a 99.9% success rate over a 28-day window to manage service reliability.

Error budgets are calculated by measuring the gap between your SLO target and 100% reliability, allowing you to track the remaining tolerance for failures and balance feature development velocity with service stability.

You can configure Prometheus alerting rules to monitor error budget burn rates by implementing specific recording and alerting configurations that notify your team when SLOs are violated or budgets are consumed too quickly.

SLIs are the actual metrics measuring service performance like availability and latency, while SLOs are the specific reliability targets set for those indicators, such as requiring 99.9% availability over a 28-day window.

Yes, you can implement latency and availability SLOs for a new API by defining the specific SLIs for those metrics, setting your desired target objectives, and calculating the corresponding error budgets to establish proactive monitoring.

Error budgets provide a quantitative framework to balance reliability with innovation, indicating how much unreliability is tolerable before focusing on stability rather than shipping new features.