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Pierre Tessier
Director, Solution Architecture
Pierre is a passionate engineer that loves to work with customers and prospects, to build better software. He's committed to understanding the vast array of technology combinations that our customers use, and how to apply observability practices to them.
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August 24, 2022
Authors’ Cut—Actionable SLOs Based on What Matters Most
SLOs—or Service Level Objectives—can be pretty powerful. They provide a safety net that helps teams identify and fix issues before they reach unacceptable levels and degrade the user experience. But SLOs can also be intimidating. Here’s how a lot of teams feel about them: We know we want SLOs, we’re not sure how to really use them, and we don’t know how to debug SLO-based alerts.