# observability-service-reliability

> Claude/Codex skill by [@elastic](https://omgskills.com/library/elastic/index.md) · 4 stars · Updated 2026-10-23

Design and operate service reliability targets in Elastic Observability: choose an SLI type and a defensible target, pick a time window and budgeting method, create and maintain SLOs through the Kibana API, attach burn-rate alert rules, and decide when an SLO is the wrong instrument and a threshold rule, anomaly job, or synthetics monitor is right. Use when defining or reviewing SLOs and error budgets, tuning burn-rate alerting, reducing alert noise, or setting up availability monitoring for a user-facing endpoint.

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/elastic/claude-plugin /tmp/claude-plugin && ln -s /tmp/claude-plugin/skills/observability/service-reliability ~/.claude/skills/observability-service-reliability
```

## From README

Service Reliability Design reliability targets that people will actually act on, then operate them. This skill covers the judgment before the API call — which service-level indicator fits the data you have, what target is achievable rather than aspirational, whether an SLO is even the right instrument — and then the mechanics of creating, alerting on, resetting, and retiring SLOs through the Kibana API. Reliability instruments are not interchangeable. An SLO measures a user-visible outcome against a spendable budget; a threshold rule fires on a raw condition; an anomaly job finds deviations where no fixed threshold exists; a synthetics monitor is the only one of the four that can see a service that has stopped emitting telemetry entirely. Choosing wrong produces alerts that are technically correct and operationally useless.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/elastic/claude-plugin/skills/observability/service-reliability/
- GitHub: https://github.com/elastic/claude-plugin
- Author: [@elastic](https://omgskills.com/library/elastic/index.md)

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