LLM Error Budgets

Why it matters

Error budgets align priorities. Understanding shapes SRE.

The architecture

Define SLO (e.g., 99.9%).

Error budget = 1 - SLO (e.g., 0.1%).

Track consumption.

Actions on budget exhaustion.

How it works end to end

Google SRE origin.

Feature freeze on exhaustion.

Post-incident budget update.