Error budget policy - considerations

 

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Question 1

What are some of the considerations when setting an Error Budget Policy? Choose all that apply.

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The policy is consistently applied and the consequences on NOT applying it are clearly defined

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Yes, a good policy explains the consequences of NOT applying it. And it’s important that the policy is consistently applied by all teams.

The policy can be renegotiated at the time of an incident

The policy is determined solely by the executive responsible for the application

The policy clearly describes how and when it should be applied

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Question 2

What are some examples of criteria of thresholds set in an Error Budget Policy?

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Escalating to Dev teams when the number of bugs increase over Xd

Escalating after Xh of error budget is burned

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Yes, monitoring burn rate and setting a threshold for this is a good example of threshold criteria.

Paging when the SLO is violated

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Yes, setting up the system to page an on-caller when the SLO has been violated is a good example of threshold set in an error budget policy

Paging when a bad push creates bugs