Set SLOs

Ongoing Reversible Define quality targets and track progress over time. Teams see their data quality score and work toward the target at their own pace.

Use this for long-term improvement rather than same-day fixes. Good for organizational rollouts where you want to set expectations without mandating specific actions.

How it works

Tero defines SLOs in your observability provider that measure data quality metrics. Teams see dashboards tracking their progress. Alerts fire when teams fall below target.

Setup

Connect your provider with SLO support:

Datadog

Tero creates SLOs using Datadog’s SLO product.

Example

You want the platform team to reduce waste from health check logs by 90% over the next quarter. You approve the policy and select “Set SLOs.” Tero creates an SLO in Datadog:

Name: Health check log reduction - platform services
Target: 90% reduction in health check log volume
Window: 30 days rolling

Current: 2.3M logs/day
Target: 230K logs/day

The platform team sees this SLO in their Datadog dashboard. They decide how to hit the target: maybe they configure their ingress controller to stop logging health checks, or they deploy Edge policies, or they update their Kubernetes probes. Datadog measures progress regardless of method. If the team falls below target, an alert fires. They investigate and adjust.

When to use

Set SLOs works best when:

You want to measure progress over time instead of requiring a same-day fix
Teams should choose their own approach to hit the target
You’re rolling out data quality org-wide and want accountability
The issue isn’t urgent but should improve over time

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