# SLO Alerting for Mortals - ervin's blog

<https://ervinbarta.com/2021/10/19/slo-alerting-for-mortals/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Great writeup of Service Level Objectives (SLO) and how to tie that in with alerting and operationalization.

> I will try to demistify concepts such as burn rate, error budget, and multi-window alerts.

The math is included, and the animations are a good way of illustrating things that happen over time.

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- [WT204: Weekly Thing #204 / Containers, Constitution, Cancel](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/204/), Notable

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