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SLI

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Definition

Service Level Indicator - specific metric that measures an aspect of service performance. Like using a speedometer to measure how fast your service responds to users.

Real-World Example

Common SLIs include response time (how quickly API calls return), error rate (percentage of failed requests), and availability (percentage of time the service is working).

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Cloud Provider Equivalencies

SLI (Service Level Indicator) is a reliability concept, not a single cloud service. All major clouds support defining and tracking SLIs using their monitoring/observability tools (metrics, logs, traces) and SLO/alerting features.

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