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Error budget

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, error budget means: The amount of unreliability allowed within a measurement period by a service-level objective.

In Turkish: hata bütçesi

How it is used

Used in reliability planning. The budget may count failed requests or downtime, depending on the objective.

Example sentences

  1. The incident consumed half of our monthly error budget for successful requests.

    Failed requests use the allowance defined by the selected success-rate target.

  2. With little error budget remaining, the team prioritized reliability fixes over optional changes.

    The remaining allowance informs release decisions rather than representing money to spend.

Common collocations

  • consume the error budget
  • remaining error budget
  • SLOShort for service level objective: an internal reliability target for a service, such as 99.9 percent of requests succeeding over 30 days.
  • incidentAn unplanned event that disrupts a service or makes it worse for users, such as an outage, a big slowdown or a data problem, and that needs a quick response.

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