Understanding Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

Abstract

In this course, you’ll learn how to create, configure, and apply Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in Datadog to monitor the health and performance of your services. SLOs are critical for defining the expected reliability of your applications, and you will discover how to track key metrics that impact overall application performance.

You’ll explore the key concepts behind SLOs and how they can be used to track critical metrics that impact the performance and reliability of your services. Through detailed explanations and examples, you will gain a solid understanding of how to configure and manage SLOs in Datadog, as well as how to effectively use them to monitor and improve service performance.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

Understand the fundamentals of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and why they are important for application monitoring and reliability
Recognize when and why to create SLOs, along with their practical applications
Identify the three main types of SLOs in Datadog: metric, monitor, and time slice based SLOs
Explain how SLOs relate to Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Summarize how Datadog's SLO services can be used to define, create, and manage SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs.

Primary Audience

This course is designed for:

Site reliability engineers (SREs)
Beginner Datadog users

Prerequisites

Completion of the the following courses:

Technical Requirements

In order to complete the course, you will need:

Google Chrome or Firefox

Course Navigation

At the bottom of each lesson, click MARK LESSON COMPLETE AND CONTINUE button so that you are marked complete for each lesson and can receive the certificate at the end of the course.

Course Enrollment Period

Please note that your enrollment in this course ends after 30 days. You can re-enroll at any time and pick up where you left off.

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