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Service Level Objective (SLO)
/'ser.vuhs 'leh.vuhl uh'bjeh.ktihv ess.el.oh/A target threshold for an SLI over a time window. SLOs turn measurements into commitments and escalation criteria. (noun)
“Our SLO is 99% of requests under 2 seconds.”
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