SLOs are good; SLOs for defined customer segments are better
We in the SRE world often speak in generalities about “customer happiness” and how SLOs can help us find that ideal bala...
How AI Makes SLOs Easier to Define and Problems Easier to Resolve
July 07, 2026
A live session on AI in Nobl9. SLO discovery interviews you about a service and drafts SLO proposals with targets and ra...
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You're Measuring Teams...But Are You Measuring What Matters
May 07, 2026
Neal Lauther (Kollective) and Brian Singer (Nobl9) will discuss why traditional monitoring falls short for collaboration...
The AI Code Tsunami
April 08, 2026
In this session, Amin Astaneh explores how AI-driven development impacts traditional operations and why reliability prac...
Today I Join the Noble Pursuit of User Happiness
Today I am joining Nobl9 as their principal site reliability engineer. My goal in life is to make people happy, and I th...
5 “Reasons” I Hate SLOs
Excuses! I’ve heard them all. When it comes to why people “hate” Service Level Objectives (SLOs), I have heard my share ...
Nobl9 and Datadog: Better Data Makes Better SLOs
At Nobl9, we’ve been working hard to build our service level objective (SLO) platform that takes your existing monitorin...
Reliability Evolution from Datacenter to Cloud: Interview with Less Lincoln, SRE at Microsoft
Less Lincoln shares tales of datacenter dysfunction and how the rise of automation and portability enabled cloud to evol...
Nobl9 Demo: Kubernetes Cluster Failover Scenario
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Nobl9 Demo: Setting up a Prometheus SLO with the Web UI
Watch Nobl9 demo video about setting up a Prometheus SLO with the Web UI:
SLO Many Talks About Reliability at KubeCon: Here Are Our Picks
The Ultimate Guide to SLOs at KubeCon Europe If you’re into SLOs and you’re going to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe Aug...
Creeping Latency Metrics: Review of a Subtle Kubernetes Serverless Scalability Bug
TL;DR—To avoid scalability cliffs, you should pay attention to creeping latency. Think of it like a tire. If you have lo...
Takeaways from Enterprise DevOps Skills Report
The DevOps Institute recently released a report titled, “2020 Upskilling: Enterprise DevOps Skills.“ Several aspects of ...
Measuring and Optimizing CPU Performance
Software engineers are under constant pressure to make their desktop, laptop, and client applications run as efficiently...
Monitoring Tells Me Nothing, Says Your CEO
Do you need to justify your infrastructure spend to your CEO? In this article, we’ll equip you to communicate clearly an...
Nobl9 Has Joined The Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Today we are proud to announce that Nobl9 has become a Silver member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and...
Optimizing Cloud Costs through Service Level Objectives
Are you spending too much on cloud services? Is there a way to optimize your cloud spend and dramatically lower it? Here...
What is Five 9s Availability? Do you really need 99.999% Server Uptime?
What is five 9s availability? Nines are a unit of measurement used to describe the reliability of a system or process. T...
Creating Your First SLO: A Discussion Guide
Congratulations! You are ready to sit down with your team and establish your first Service Level Objective (SLO). You mi...
How to Explain SRE to Your CEO
As we discussed in the previous post, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an operating model that helps your organizat...
Intro to Error Budget Policies
This article will get a bit deeper into how to turn service level objectives (SLOs) into a tool for balancing investment...
You’re Not Google. And, Yes, You Still Need SLOs
Much of the available literature about Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) refers to ...
How do we measure the customer experience?
So many interactions with customers are going through digital channels that you’d think it would be easy to understand w...
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