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Golden signals

Check a service’s latency, traffic, errors and saturation against their thresholds in one place.

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How it's worked out

  • Each signal ÷ its threshold; near = over 85% of threshold
  • Thresholds from your SLOs and capacity tests
NoteSaturation is the early warning: it rises before latency and errors do.

Source: Google SRE book, ch. 6 (the four golden signals)

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