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SLOs

This feature is available as part of the Honeycomb Pro and Enterprise plans.

Honeycomb SLOs allow you to define and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for your organization.

This API allows you to list, create, update, and delete SLO objects.

Authorization

The API key must have the Manage SLOs permission. Learn more about API keys here.

Create an SLO

Create an SLO on the provided dataset

Securityconfiguration_key
Request
path Parameters
datasetSlug
required
string

The dataset slug.

Request Body schema: application/json
required
name
required
string [ 1 .. 120 ] characters

The name of the SLO.

description
string [ 0 .. 1023 ] characters

A nice description of the SLO's intent and context.

required
object

Reference to the Derived Column used as the indicator of event success.

time_period_days
required
integer >= 1

The time period, in days, over which the SLO will be evaluated.

target_per_million
required
integer [ 0 .. 999999 ]

The number of events out of one million (1,000,000) that you expected qualified events to succeed.

Responses
201

Success - SLO created

404

Not Found

422

Validation Failed

default

Error

post/1/slos/{datasetSlug}
Request samples
application/json
{
  • "name": "My SLO",
  • "description": "SLO to ensure requests succeed and are fast",
  • "sli": {
    },
  • "time_period_days": 30,
  • "target_per_million": 990000
}
Response samples
application/json
{
  • "id": "string",
  • "name": "My SLO",
  • "description": "SLO to ensure requests succeed and are fast",
  • "sli": {
    },
  • "time_period_days": 30,
  • "target_per_million": 990000,
  • "reset_at": "2022-011-11T09:53:04Z",
  • "created_at": "2022-09-22T17:32:11Z",
  • "updated_at": "2022-10-31T15:08:11Z"
}

Get all SLOs

Get all SLOs for a dataset

Securityconfiguration_key
Request
path Parameters
datasetSlug
required
string

The dataset slug.

Responses
200

Success

404

Not Found

default

Error

get/1/slos/{datasetSlug}
Request samples 
Response samples 
application/json
[
  • {
    }
]
Get an SLO
Get an SLO by ID.


Securityconfiguration_key 
Request 
path Parameters
datasetSlug
required
string
The dataset slug.


 
sloId
required
string
Unique identifer (ID) of the SLO.


 
query Parameters
detailed
boolean
Allows SLO reporting data (budget_remaining and compliance) to be returned when retrieving a single SLO. 

 This feature is available as part of the Honeycomb Enterprise plan.


 
Responses 
200
Success


404
Not Found


default
Error


get/1/slos/{datasetSlug}/{sloId}
Request samples 
Response samples 
application/json
Get an SLO by ID


{
  • "id": "bZ1aRHAUsjG",
  • "name": "My SLO",
  • "description": "My SLO description",
  • "sli": {
    },
  • "time_period_days": 30,
  • "target_per_million": 989900,
  • "reset_at": "2022-10-15T13:53:11Z",
  • "created_at": "2022-09-15T05:39:42Z",
  • "updated_at": "2022-12-20T08:10:05Z"
}
Update an SLO
Update an SLO by specifying its ID and full SLO details.


Securityconfiguration_key 
Request 
path Parameters
datasetSlug
required
string
The dataset slug.


 
sloId
required
string
Unique identifer (ID) of the SLO.


 
Request Body schema: application/json
required
Partial updates are not supported.


name
required
string  [ 1 .. 120 ] characters 
The name of the SLO.


 
description
string  [ 0 .. 1023 ] characters 
A nice description of the SLO's intent and context.


 
required
object
Reference to the Derived Column used as the indicator of event success.


 
time_period_days
required
integer  >= 1 
The time period, in days, over which the SLO will be evaluated.


 
target_per_million
required
integer  [ 0 .. 999999 ] 
The number of events out of one million (1,000,000) that you expected qualified events to succeed.


 
Responses 
200
Success


404
Not Found


422
Validation Failed


default
Error


put/1/slos/{datasetSlug}/{sloId}
Request samples 
application/json
{
  • "name": "My SLO",
  • "description": "SLO to ensure requests succeed and are fast",
  • "sli": {
    },
  • "time_period_days": 30,
  • "target_per_million": 990000
}
Response samples 
application/json
{
  • "id": "string",
  • "name": "My SLO",
  • "description": "SLO to ensure requests succeed and are fast",
  • "sli": {
    },
  • "time_period_days": 30,
  • "target_per_million": 990000,
  • "reset_at": "2022-011-11T09:53:04Z",
  • "created_at": "2022-09-22T17:32:11Z",
  • "updated_at": "2022-10-31T15:08:11Z"
}
Delete an SLO
Delete an SLO by specifying its ID.


Securityconfiguration_key 
Request 
path Parameters
datasetSlug
required
string
The dataset slug.


 
sloId
required
string
Unique identifer (ID) of the SLO.


 
Responses 
204
Success - no content


404
Not Found


default
Error


delete/1/slos/{datasetSlug}/{sloId}
Request samples 
Response samples 
{
  • "error": "dataset not found"
}
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