error budget policy concept
Pre-agreed escalation when you exceed your error budget: stop feature work, focus on reliability; if it stays bad, dial down rollout speed; if catastrophic, freeze releases.
Pre-agreed escalation when you exceed your error budget: stop feature work, focus on reliability; if it stays bad, dial down rollout speed; if catastrophic, freeze releases. The policy is the teeth of SLOs — without consequences, error budgets are just metrics. The escalation is what aligns reliability investment with the actual cost of unreliability.