slo-rules-generator is a tool which generates Prometheus recording rules based on input defintion of SLO domain. The generated rules are necessary for SLO based alerting - error budget exhaustion and burn-rate based alerts.

See ./slo-domains.yaml.example for commented example of input configuration.

Usage

1. Run go version to verify that you have Go installed - if not, refer to golang website
2. Build slo-rules-generator by running go build .
3. Run slo-rules-generator with slo-domain.yaml.example as an argument by running the following command:

   slo-rules-generator slo-domains.yaml.example

Metrics in generated output

slo:stable_version

• used in order to link given domain to specific team (label team)
• enabled="true|false" disable burn_rate, error budget alerts
• escalate label documents first escalation level for the given domain

Example:

slo:stable_version{enabled="true", escalate="sre-team@company.org", namespace="test", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_version="1", team="example-team@company.org"}

slo:violation_ratio_threshold

• holds value of threshold for given slo_version, slo_domain, slo_class, slo_type, namespace
• additional labels simplify values visualization in Grafana for latency-related SLO types - percentile, le (same as for le in Prometheus histograms, documents latency threshold)

Example:

slo:violation_ratio_threshold{le="0.6", namespace="test", percentile="90", slo_class="critical", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_type="latency90", slo_version="1"}
	0.9
slo:violation_ratio_threshold{le="12.0", namespace="test", percentile="99", slo_class="critical", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_type="latency99", slo_version="1"}
	0.99
slo:violation_ratio_threshold{namespace="test", slo_class="critical", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_type="availability", slo_version="1"}
	0.9

slo:burn_rate_threshold

• modifier for slo:burn_rate based alerts' threshold
• default values are usually reasonable, make sure you read chapters on SLO from SRE workbook before even considering to change these

Example:

slo:burn_rate_threshold{namespace="test", slo_class="critical", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_time_range="1d", slo_type="availability", slo_version="1"}
	2.8
slo:burn_rate_threshold{namespace="test", slo_class="critical", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_time_range="1d", slo_type="latency90", slo_version="1"}
	2.8
slo:burn_rate_threshold{namespace="test", slo_class="critical", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_time_range="1d", slo_type="latency99", slo_version="1"}
	2.8
slo:burn_rate_threshold{namespace="test", slo_class="critical", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_time_range="1h", slo_type="availability", slo_version="1"}
	13.44
slo:burn_rate_threshold{namespace="test", slo_class="critical", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_time_range="1h", slo_type="latency90", slo_version="1"}
	13.44
slo:burn_rate_threshold{namespace="test", slo_class="critical", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_time_range="1h", slo_type="latency99", slo_version="1"}
	13.44
slo:burn_rate_threshold{namespace="test", slo_class="critical", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_time_range="3d", slo_type="availability", slo_version="1"}
	1
slo:burn_rate_threshold{namespace="test", slo_class="critical", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_time_range="3d", slo_type="latency90", slo_version="1"}
	1
slo:burn_rate_threshold{namespace="test", slo_class="critical", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_time_range="3d", slo_type="latency99", slo_version="1"}
	1
slo:burn_rate_threshold{namespace="test", slo_class="critical", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_time_range="6h", slo_type="availability", slo_version="1"}
	5.6
slo:burn_rate_threshold{namespace="test", slo_class="critical", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_time_range="6h", slo_type="latency90", slo_version="1"}
	5.6
slo:burn_rate_threshold{namespace="test", slo_class="critical", slo_domain="example-domain", slo_time_range="6h", slo_type="latency99", slo_version="1"}
	5.6