To create a Service Level Objective (SLO), you can use the Datadog Operator and DatadogSLO custom resource definition (CRD).

Prerequisites

• Helm
• kubectl CLI
• Datadog Operator v0.6+

Setup

1. Create a file with the spec of your DatadogSLO deployment configuration.

   Example: Monitor-based SLO

   datadog-slo.yaml

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      apiVersion: datadoghq.com/v1alpha1
      kind: DatadogSLO
      metadata:
        name: example-slo-monitor3
        namespace: system 
      spec:
        name: example-slo-monitor3
        description: "This is an example monitor SLO from datadog-operator"
        monitorIDs:
          - 1234
        tags:
          - "service:example"
          - "env:prod"
        targetThreshold: "99.9"
        timeframe: "7d"
        type: "monitor"
      

   Example: Metric-based SLO

   datadog-slo.yaml

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      apiVersion: datadoghq.com/v1alpha1
      kind: DatadogSLO
      metadata:
        name: example-slo
        namespace: system 
      spec:
        name: example-slo
        description: "This is an example metric SLO from datadog-operator"
        query:
          denominator: "sum:requests.total{service:example,env:prod}.as_count()"
          numerator: "sum:requests.success{service:example,env:prod}.as_count()"
        tags:
          - "service:example"
          - "env:prod"
        targetThreshold: "99.9"
        timeframe: "7d"
        type: "metric"
      

   For all available configuration options, see the Create an SLO object API reference.

2. Deploy your DatadogSLO:

   kubectl apply -f /path/to/your/datadog-slo.yaml
   

Additional examples

Metric-based SLO with Universal Service Monitoring