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slo

Create an SLO

You must have all privileges for the SLOs feature in the Observability section of the Kibana feature privileges.

post/s/{spaceId}/api/observability/slos

Path parameters

spaceIdstring required
Example:default

An identifier for the space. If /s/ and the identifier are omitted from the path, the default space is used.

Headers

kbn-xsrfstring required

Cross-site request forgery protection

Request body

budgetingMethod'occurrences' | 'timeslices' required

The budgeting method to use when computing the rollup data.

descriptionstring required

A description for the SLO.

idstring

A optional and unique identifier for the SLO. Must be between 8 and 48 chars

namestring required

A name for the SLO.

tagsstring[]

List of tags

Example request

{
  "budgetingMethod": "occurrences",
  "id": "my-super-slo-id",
  "indicator": {
    "params": {
      "dataViewId": "03b80ab3-003d-498b-881c-3beedbaf1162",
      "filter": "field.environment : \"production\" and service.name : \"my-service\"",
      "good": "request.latency <= 150 and request.status_code : \"2xx\"",
      "index": "my-service-*",
      "timestampField": "timestamp",
      "total": "field.environment : \"production\" and service.name : \"my-service\""
    },
    "type": "sli.kql.custom"
  },
  "objective": {
    "target": 0.99,
    "timesliceTarget": 0.995,
    "timesliceWindow": "5m"
  },
  "settings": {
    "frequency": "5m",
    "preventCrossProjectSearch": true,
    "preventInitialBackfill": true,
    "syncDelay": "5m",
    "syncField": "event.ingested"
  },
  "timeWindow": {
    "duration": "30d",
    "type": "rolling"
  }
}

Response

Successful request

idstring required

Example response

{
  "id": "8853df00-ae2e-11ed-90af-09bb6422b258"
}