ASC 2022 - API Specifications Conference

If you are an API provider or consumer, you will likely expect or provide Service Level Objectives for the API – often in terms of latency or uptime, but sometimes other metrics. These are often described in documentation, but how can they be described in a machine-readable format, in a way that can be flexible enough to define SLOs for different services?

This talk covers the approach we have taken to describe SLOs programmatically, describing the reasons for the choices we made, and the use cases it handles. We also cover the considerations you should make when defining SLOs for your APIs with some suggested best practices.