observability-manage-slos

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INSTALLATION
npx skills add https://github.com/elastic/agent-skills --skill observability-manage-slos
Run in your project or agent environment. Adjust flags if your CLI version differs.

SKILL.md

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SLI Types

Type

API value

Use case

Custom KQL

sli.kql.custom

Raw logs — good/total using KQL queries

Custom metric

sli.metric.custom

Metric fields — equations with aggregations

Timeslice metric

sli.metric.timeslice

Metric fields — per-slice threshold check

Histogram metric

sli.histogram.custom

Histogram fields — range/value_count

APM latency

sli.apm.transactionDuration

APM — latency threshold

APM availability

sli.apm.transactionErrorRate

APM — success rate

Synthetics availability

sli.synthetics.availability

Synthetics monitors — uptime percentage

Guidelines

  • objective.target is a decimal between 0 and 1 (for example 0.995 for 99.5%).
  • Timeslice metric indicators require budgetingMethod: "timeslices".
  • Updating an SLO resets the underlying transform — historical data is recomputed.
  • The cluster needs nodes with both transform and ingest roles.
  • Use POST .../slos/{id}/_reset when an SLO is stuck or after index mapping changes.
  • Group-by SLOs create one instance per unique value — avoid high-cardinality fields.
  • Synthetics SLOs are auto-grouped by monitor and location; do not set groupBy manually.
  • Burn rate alert rules are not auto-created using the API — set them up separately.

Additional references

For official documentation, refer to the following resources:

SLO documentation

— concepts, SLI types, budgeting methods, and dashboard panels.

guide for creating SLOs in the Kibana UI.

searching, filtering, and managing existing SLOs.

Kibana SLO API

with all SLI type payloads.

Update |

Delete |

Reset

Disable |

Get definitions

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