Cloud-Native SLO Engineering: Build Service Level Objectives with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and Error Budgets for Reliable Moder
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 7 2026
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.90
Height: 0.77 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Cloud-Native SLO Engineering
Modern cloud-native systems are powerful-but also incredibly complex. Microservices, distributed infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and continuous deployments introduce reliability challenges that traditional monitoring simply cannot solve.
To operate reliable systems at scale, engineering teams must move beyond basic monitoring and adopt Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as the foundation of reliability engineering.
Cloud-Native SLO Engineering is a practical, hands-on guide to designing, implementing, and operating reliability-driven systems using modern observability tools and SRE practices.
In this book, you will learn how to transform raw telemetry into actionable reliability insights using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Kubernetes. Through real-world architectures, step-by-step labs, and a full production-style capstone project, you will build a complete SLO monitoring platform capable of measuring reliability, tracking error budgets, and guiding operational decisions.
Rather than focusing on theory alone, this guide emphasizes practical implementation-showing how engineering teams can integrate SLOs directly into modern cloud-native platforms and DevOps workflows.
Inside this book, you will learn how to:
- Design meaningful Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- Implement error budgets to balance reliability and development velocity
- Instrument microservices with OpenTelemetry for observability
- Collect and analyze reliability metrics using Prometheus and PromQL
- Build powerful Grafana SLO dashboards and burn-rate alerts
- Monitor reliability across Kubernetes-based microservices platforms
- Automate SLO policies within CI/CD and GitOps workflows
- Investigate incidents, analyze error budget spikes, and improve system resilience
- Deploy a complete cloud-native reliability platform in the capstone project
By the end of this book, you will be able to design and operate an SLO-driven reliability platform capable of supporting modern distributed systems in production environments.
This book is ideal for:
- Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)
- DevOps Engineers
- Platform Engineers
- Cloud Architects
- Engineering teams building Kubernetes-based platforms
If you want to move beyond traditional monitoring and build reliability-first cloud-native systems, this book will give you the practical tools, architecture patterns, and operational workflows required to implement SLO engineering in real production environments.
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