Service-Level Agreement (SLA) Glossary Definition

Term Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
Definition

Service-Level Agreement (SLA) is a DevOps operations and reliability concept used to observe service behavior, respond to failures, and improve resilience over time.

Context & Usage

Site Reliability Engineering and operations teams use this concept to measure service health, investigate incidents, and turn operational learning into improvement.

Related concepts include DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Observability and Incident Response.

Additional Resource: Google Site Reliability Engineering Book.

Agreement specifying service expectations and measures.

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