💬 Internal Feedback - Error Budgets

groupscalability have been producing error budget reports since 2021 and they have been through a few iterations in that time. In this issue we are looking for feedback around error budgets and how easy they are to use and whether you have been able to integrate them into your planning processes.

Additionally we want to understand whether you have specific needs that the current solutions are not meeting.

Links to tools

• Index of our metrics and links to relevant dashboards by stage groups
• An example error budget report (2023-03)
• Configure's Error Budget Dashboard as an example
• The error-budget-reports repo where you can check the issues for previously released reports
• Scalability's Error Budget Backlog
• Error budgets category summary

Questions to help guide feedback (answering these is helpful but feel free to include any other feedback) 🙂

• Is this easy to understand?
• Is this actionable?
• What do you feel is missing?
• Is there functionality you would like to see?
• Are there other examples of this type of communication that you think work well?
• Any other feedback you have!

Known issues

• Problems in the observability stack can cause issues on error budget metrics for all error budgets - gitlab-com/gl-infra&918 (closed) tracking work to improve reliability of metrics

Links to Docs/Handbook

• Handbook - Engineering Error Budgets
• Docs - Observability for Stage Groups
• Slides - Error Budget AMA
• Slack - Error Budget Bot
• Handbook - Error Budgets worked example
• Readiness repo - Error Budgets Explainer