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Use when designing or reviewing monitoring, dashboards and alerts — golden signals, white-box vs black-box, alert hygiene, and turning SLOs into multiwindow multi-burn-rate alerts (with Prometheus templates and a burn-rate calculator). Based on Google SRE practice.

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Monitoring and Alerting

Monitoring answers what is broken and why. Page humans only when the error budget is under real threat; everything else is a ticket or a dashboard.

Monitoring Design

Monitoring exists to answer two questions: what is broken (symptom) and why (cause). Build it so that a human is only interrupted for the first, and can find the second quickly.

Principles

Alert on symptoms, investigate with causes. Users feel "checkout is slow", not "DB CPU is 90%". Page on user-visible symptoms (ideally SLO burn — see Alerting on SLOs below); keep cause metrics for dashboards and debugging.
Every page must be urgent, actionable, and need human judgment. If a script could respond, automate it. If it can wait until morning, it's a ticket. If nobody acts on it, delete it.
Keep it simple. Rules that rarely fire, signals nobody looks at, and clever heuristics rot. Prefer a small set of well-understood signals and remove what isn't used (review quarterly).
Black-box + white-box. Black-box probes show what users see right now (and catch problems that never reach your servers). White-box metrics show internals and imminent problems. You need both.
Measure distributions, not averages. Use histograms/percentiles for latency; averages hide the tail. Choose bucket boundaries that match SLO thresholds.

The four golden signals (request-serving systems)

Signal	What to measure	Watch for
Latency	Time to serve, separately for successes and errors	Fast errors hide in blended averages; slow errors are worse than fast ones
Traffic	Demand: requests/s, sessions, transactions, bytes	Sudden drops can mean an upstream outage, not good news
Errors	Rate of failed requests: explicit (5xx), implicit (wrong content), policy (slower than promised)	Some errors are only visible end-to-end
Saturation	How full the most constrained resource is (CPU, memory, I/O, threads, queue depth, connection pools)	Latency increase is often the earliest sign; predict "full in N hours"

For pipelines add freshness, throughput and backlog; for storage add durability and capacity headroom.

Design procedure

Start from SLIs (sre-slos-and-error-budgets). Those become the top of every dashboard and the source of pages.
Instrument the golden signals at each tier (load balancer, service, critical dependencies). Label by endpoint/request class, response code, and version so you can slice by release.
Add saturation metrics for the resource that runs out first. Know what that is from load tests (sre-capacity-and-system-design).
Add black-box probes for each critical user journey, from outside your network.
Decide metrics vs logs vs traces. Metrics for things you alert on and trend (cheap, aggregated). Logs for per-event detail and forensic debugging. Traces for latency breakdown across services. Don't page from log scraping if a metric can carry the signal.
Build dashboards in layers:
- Service overview: SLIs + budget remaining, golden signals, current release version.
- Dependency view: each critical dependency's latency/errors as seen from the caller.
- Resource view: saturation per component. Annotate deploys, config pushes and incidents on graphs.
Write alert rules with: a clear name, severity (page/ticket), the user impact in the description, and a runbook link with first diagnostic steps.
Test the monitoring. Verify alerts fire by injecting failures in staging or by unit-testing rules. Monitor the monitoring (a dead-man's-switch alert that fires when the pipeline stops sending).

Alert hygiene checklist

For every existing page:

Did it detect something users would notice (or will soon)?
Was action required immediately, and did a human need to decide what to do?
Has it fired spuriously in the last quarter? How often was it ignored?
Does it duplicate another alert for the same symptom?
Does its runbook exist and still match reality?

Anything failing these: convert to ticket, automate the response, merge, or delete. Track pages per shift as a health metric (sre-on-call-and-toil).

Anti-patterns

Paging on every cause metric "just in case".
Static thresholds copied from another service without understanding.
Dashboards with dozens of graphs and no ordering by importance.
Monitoring that depends on the system it monitors (same cluster, same network path).
Long for: durations used to hide flapping instead of fixing the signal.

Alerting on SLOs

Page a human only when the error budget is under real threat. Everything else is a ticket or a dashboard.

Judge any alerting strategy on four properties

Precision — share of alerts that were significant.
Recall — share of significant events that alerted.
Detection time — how fast it fires.
Reset time — how long it keeps firing after recovery.

A "significant event" means it consumed a meaningful fraction of the error budget.

Why the simple options fail

Approach	Problem
Alert when the short-window (e.g. 10 min) error rate ≥ SLO threshold	Poor precision: can fire many times a day while the SLO is still met
Same threshold, long window (e.g. 36 h)	Good precision, but it keeps firing for hours after the problem is fixed and is expensive to compute
Short window + `for:` duration	Detection time ignores severity (a total outage waits as long as a tiny one); a flapping signal resets the timer and may never fire. Don't use durations for SLO alerts.
Single burn-rate alert (e.g. 14.4× over 1h)	Good precision and detection, but misses slower burns that still exhaust the budget

Recommended: multiwindow, multi-burn-rate

Burn rate = observed error ratio ÷ (1 − SLO). Burn rate 1 spends exactly the whole budget over the window; burn rate 1,000 on a 99.9%/30-day SLO spends it in ~43 minutes.

Starting configuration for a 30-day window (scale thresholds by your SLO):

Severity	Long window	Short window	Burn rate	Budget consumed when it fires
Page	1 h	5 min	14.4	2%
Page	6 h	30 min	6	5%
Ticket	3 d	6 h	1	10%

Fire only when both long and short windows exceed the threshold. The long window gives precision; the short window (≈1/12 of the long) makes it stop firing soon after recovery.
Threshold for each row = burn_rate × (1 − SLO).
Burn rate for "X% of budget in window W" over period P = X × P / W. (2% of 30 days in 1 h → 0.02 × 720 = 14.4.)
Add alert suppression/inhibition so one big outage doesn't produce three notifications.
Pages and tickets are the only alert outputs that ask a human to act; route the ticket row to a queue, not a pager.

Rule templates: references/prometheus-rules.md. Calculator: scripts/burn_rate.py.

Special cases

Low-traffic services — one failure out of a handful of requests looks like a 1,000× burn. Options, usually combined:

Generate synthetic traffic with probers (but synthetic success can mask real-user failure).
Aggregate related low-traffic services that share failure domains into one alerting group.
Make the product tolerate single failures (client retries with exponential backoff and jitter, queued/deferred execution).
Reconsider whether the SLO or window is right if a single failure really doesn't merit a page.

Very loose SLOs (e.g. 90%) — a total 1-hour outage may never reach "2% of budget in 1h"; recompute thresholds so achievable outages can still fire.

Very tight SLOs (e.g. 99.999%) — a full outage burns the monthly budget in under a minute, faster than alerting can react. Defend these with design: progressive rollouts (a 1% canary stretches the time-to-exhaustion 100×), automated rollback, isolation. See sre-release-and-launch.

Alerting at scale

Don't hand-tune windows and burn rates per service. Pick one parameter set and apply it everywhere. Group request types into a few classes with shared targets, e.g.:

Class	Example	Availability	Latency
CRITICAL	login, payment	99.99%	tight
HIGH_FAST	interactive core features	99.9%	tight
HIGH_SLOW	reports, exports	99.9%	relaxed
LOW	background polling	99%	none
NO_SLO	dark launches, alpha	none	none

Reviewing existing alerts

For each alert ask: Is it tied to user-visible impact (symptom) or to an internal cause? Does it require immediate human action? What did responders actually do the last N times? Delete or downgrade anything that is routinely ignored or auto-resolves. See also Alert hygiene checklist above and sre-on-call-and-toil.

Sources

SRE book ch. 6 Monitoring Distributed Systems — https://sre.google/sre-book/monitoring-distributed-systems/
SRE book ch. 10 Practical Alerting — https://sre.google/sre-book/practical-alerting/
Workbook ch. 4 Monitoring — https://sre.google/workbook/monitoring/
Workbook ch. 5 Alerting on SLOs — https://sre.google/workbook/alerting-on-slos/

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description: Use when designing or reviewing monitoring, dashboards and alerts — golden signals, white-box vs black-box, alert hygiene, and turning SLOs into multiwindow multi-burn-rate alerts (with Prometheus templates and a burn-rate calculator). Based on Google SRE practice.
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# Monitoring and Alerting

Monitoring answers what is broken and why. Page humans only when the error budget is under real threat; everything else is a ticket or a dashboard.

## Monitoring Design

Monitoring exists to answer two questions: **what is broken** (symptom) and **why** (cause). Build it so that a human is only interrupted for the first, and can find the second quickly.

### Principles

- **Alert on symptoms, investigate with causes.** Users feel "checkout is slow", not "DB CPU is 90%". Page on user-visible symptoms (ideally SLO burn — see *Alerting on SLOs* below); keep cause metrics for dashboards and debugging.
- **Every page must be urgent, actionable, and need human judgment.** If a script could respond, automate it. If it can wait until morning, it's a ticket. If nobody acts on it, delete it.
- **Keep it simple.** Rules that rarely fire, signals nobody looks at, and clever heuristics rot. Prefer a small set of well-understood signals and remove what isn't used (review quarterly).
- **Black-box + white-box.** Black-box probes show what users see right now (and catch problems that never reach your servers). White-box metrics show internals and imminent problems. You need both.
- **Measure distributions, not averages.** Use histograms/percentiles for latency; averages hide the tail. Choose bucket boundaries that match SLO thresholds.

### The four golden signals (request-serving systems)

| Signal | What to measure | Watch for |
|---|---|---|
| Latency | Time to serve, **separately for successes and errors** | Fast errors hide in blended averages; slow errors are worse than fast ones |
| Traffic | Demand: requests/s, sessions, transactions, bytes | Sudden drops can mean an upstream outage, not good news |
| Errors | Rate of failed requests: explicit (5xx), implicit (wrong content), policy (slower than promised) | Some errors are only visible end-to-end |
| Saturation | How full the most constrained resource is (CPU, memory, I/O, threads, queue depth, connection pools) | Latency increase is often the earliest sign; predict "full in N hours" |

For pipelines add freshness, throughput and backlog; for storage add durability and capacity headroom.

### Design procedure

1. **Start from SLIs** (`sre-slos-and-error-budgets`). Those become the top of every dashboard and the source of pages.
2. **Instrument the golden signals** at each tier (load balancer, service, critical dependencies). Label by endpoint/request class, response code, and version so you can slice by release.
3. **Add saturation metrics** for the resource that runs out first. Know what that is from load tests (`sre-capacity-and-system-design`).
4. **Add black-box probes** for each critical user journey, from outside your network.
5. **Decide metrics vs logs vs traces.** Metrics for things you alert on and trend (cheap, aggregated). Logs for per-event detail and forensic debugging. Traces for latency breakdown across services. Don't page from log scraping if a metric can carry the signal.
6. **Build dashboards in layers:**
   - Service overview: SLIs + budget remaining, golden signals, current release version.
   - Dependency view: each critical dependency's latency/errors as seen from the caller.
   - Resource view: saturation per component.
   Annotate deploys, config pushes and incidents on graphs.
7. **Write alert rules with**: a clear name, severity (page/ticket), the user impact in the description, and a runbook link with first diagnostic steps.
8. **Test the monitoring.** Verify alerts fire by injecting failures in staging or by unit-testing rules. Monitor the monitoring (a dead-man's-switch alert that fires when the pipeline stops sending).

### Alert hygiene checklist

For every existing page:
- [ ] Did it detect something users would notice (or will soon)?
- [ ] Was action required immediately, and did a human need to decide what to do?
- [ ] Has it fired spuriously in the last quarter? How often was it ignored?
- [ ] Does it duplicate another alert for the same symptom?
- [ ] Does its runbook exist and still match reality?

Anything failing these: convert to ticket, automate the response, merge, or delete. Track pages per shift as a health metric (`sre-on-call-and-toil`).

### Anti-patterns

- Paging on every cause metric "just in case".
- Static thresholds copied from another service without understanding.
- Dashboards with dozens of graphs and no ordering by importance.
- Monitoring that depends on the system it monitors (same cluster, same network path).
- Long `for:` durations used to hide flapping instead of fixing the signal.

## Alerting on SLOs

Page a human only when the error budget is under real threat. Everything else is a ticket or a dashboard.

### Judge any alerting strategy on four properties

- **Precision** — share of alerts that were significant.
- **Recall** — share of significant events that alerted.
- **Detection time** — how fast it fires.
- **Reset time** — how long it keeps firing after recovery.

A "significant event" means it consumed a meaningful fraction of the error budget.

### Why the simple options fail

| Approach | Problem |
|---|---|
| Alert when the short-window (e.g. 10 min) error rate ≥ SLO threshold | Poor precision: can fire many times a day while the SLO is still met |
| Same threshold, long window (e.g. 36 h) | Good precision, but it keeps firing for hours after the problem is fixed and is expensive to compute |
| Short window + `for:` duration | Detection time ignores severity (a total outage waits as long as a tiny one); a flapping signal resets the timer and may never fire. **Don't use durations for SLO alerts.** |
| Single burn-rate alert (e.g. 14.4× over 1h) | Good precision and detection, but misses slower burns that still exhaust the budget |

### Recommended: multiwindow, multi-burn-rate

**Burn rate** = observed error ratio ÷ (1 − SLO). Burn rate 1 spends exactly the whole budget over the window; burn rate 1,000 on a 99.9%/30-day SLO spends it in ~43 minutes.

Starting configuration for a 30-day window (scale thresholds by your SLO):

| Severity | Long window | Short window | Burn rate | Budget consumed when it fires |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Page | 1 h | 5 min | 14.4 | 2% |
| Page | 6 h | 30 min | 6 | 5% |
| Ticket | 3 d | 6 h | 1 | 10% |

- Fire only when **both** long and short windows exceed the threshold. The long window gives precision; the short window (≈1/12 of the long) makes it stop firing soon after recovery.
- Threshold for each row = `burn_rate × (1 − SLO)`.
- Burn rate for "X% of budget in window W" over period P = `X × P / W`. (2% of 30 days in 1 h → 0.02 × 720 = 14.4.)
- Add alert suppression/inhibition so one big outage doesn't produce three notifications.
- Pages and tickets are the only alert outputs that ask a human to act; route the ticket row to a queue, not a pager.

Rule templates: `references/prometheus-rules.md`. Calculator: `scripts/burn_rate.py`.

### Special cases

**Low-traffic services** — one failure out of a handful of requests looks like a 1,000× burn. Options, usually combined:
- Generate synthetic traffic with probers (but synthetic success can mask real-user failure).
- Aggregate related low-traffic services that share failure domains into one alerting group.
- Make the product tolerate single failures (client retries with exponential backoff and jitter, queued/deferred execution).
- Reconsider whether the SLO or window is right if a single failure really doesn't merit a page.

**Very loose SLOs (e.g. 90%)** — a total 1-hour outage may never reach "2% of budget in 1h"; recompute thresholds so achievable outages can still fire.

**Very tight SLOs (e.g. 99.999%)** — a full outage burns the monthly budget in under a minute, faster than alerting can react. Defend these with design: progressive rollouts (a 1% canary stretches the time-to-exhaustion 100×), automated rollback, isolation. See `sre-release-and-launch`.

### Alerting at scale

Don't hand-tune windows and burn rates per service. Pick one parameter set and apply it everywhere. Group request types into a few classes with shared targets, e.g.:

| Class | Example | Availability | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRITICAL | login, payment | 99.99% | tight |
| HIGH_FAST | interactive core features | 99.9% | tight |
| HIGH_SLOW | reports, exports | 99.9% | relaxed |
| LOW | background polling | 99% | none |
| NO_SLO | dark launches, alpha | none | none |

### Reviewing existing alerts

For each alert ask: Is it tied to user-visible impact (symptom) or to an internal cause? Does it require immediate human action? What did responders actually do the last N times? Delete or downgrade anything that is routinely ignored or auto-resolves. See also *Alert hygiene checklist* above and `sre-on-call-and-toil`.

## Sources

- SRE book ch. 6 Monitoring Distributed Systems — https://sre.google/sre-book/monitoring-distributed-systems/
- SRE book ch. 10 Practical Alerting — https://sre.google/sre-book/practical-alerting/
- Workbook ch. 4 Monitoring — https://sre.google/workbook/monitoring/
- Workbook ch. 5 Alerting on SLOs — https://sre.google/workbook/alerting-on-slos/

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Monitoring and Alerting

Monitoring Design

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The four golden signals (request-serving systems)

Design procedure

Alert hygiene checklist

Anti-patterns

Alerting on SLOs

Judge any alerting strategy on four properties

Why the simple options fail

Recommended: multiwindow, multi-burn-rate

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