Best practices for managing your SLOs with Datadog

Collaboration and communication are crucial for successful implementation of service level objectives (SLOs). Datadog simplifies cross-team collaboration by enabling everyone to track, manage, and monitor the status of all their SLOs in one place. Choosing the best SLO depends on whether you're using time-based or count-based data to calculate the SLI. Monitor-based SLO tracks time-based data while metric-based SLO uses your metrics in Datadog to calculate its SLI. Names, descriptions, and tags help keep SLOs organized and streamline communication across teams. Grouping SLOs with tags enables tracking of individual clusters or availability zones in context with the overall status. Enhancing dashboards with SLOs helps visualize key performance metrics from infrastructure and applications.