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OpenSLO Community Meeting: September 2021

The September meeting refined alert policies, counter terminology, and the roles of labels and annotations.

Summary

  1. Alert policies: The group reviewed distinct conditions for budget exhaustion, remaining budget, and average burn rate. The proposal also included alerts when a condition resolves. Participants discussed ways to avoid alerts for expected spikes. Discussion at 1:01.

  2. Counter terminology: Participants agreed to rename the incremental metric type to counter to make its meaning clearer. Discussion at 10:09.

  3. Labels and annotations: Labels were proposed for categorization and search, with annotations for implementation-specific information. The group wanted concrete examples before deciding whether both fields were necessary. Discussion at 15:18.

Action Items

  1. Open a pull request to rename incremental to counter.
  2. Review the updated alert policy proposal.
  3. Link the labels and annotations proposals, collect examples, and continue the discussion in GitHub and Slack.

Recording