Improving Sloth SLOs dashboard about sloth HOT 8 OPEN

Hey @w-reichert!

Thanks for bringing this up!

I'm planning some changes in Sloth that may affect the dashboards... so when I tackle these, it would be a good time to revisit because I may affect the current dashboards.

Best,

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I'm using Sloth SLOs and Grafana dashboard too. It is pretty easy for use and has been working great so far!
I also have a feature request for the dashboard. I usually see Month error budget burn chart panel for monitoring, but don't understand if the current burn rate is good at a glance. I would suggest that showing the graph in different colors or drawing an additional line by a burn rate of 1. I'm trying the latter solution that looks like:

Anyway, thanks for providing this product!

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Not yet, I'll need a bit more of time

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@itkq Check #216

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Xabier, thanks for the quick response.
When you have a new version of Sloth and/or the dashboard we would love to test it and provide feedback.

Regards, Wolfgang

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@slok Thank you for your great contributions to SRE world. I see v0.9.0 is released did you included the above ask in this release?

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Hi @w-reichert!

I've revised what you said about the colors, and I did that on purpose. Mainly the error budget you have means that it has been decided to be consumed, so, the perfect error budget left would be 0%. Below that, means that you didn't achieve the reliability you were supposed to have, and above that, means that you didn't consume enough (few experiments, to slow shipping features...).

Anyhow, I would happily change that if people prefer that kind of semaphore coloring while you are approaching 0% error budget left. Regarding the negative, part, you are right, I didn't do that so people are aware of how much they fail.

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Hi Xabier @slok,
thanks for looking into my recommendations.

Actually the issue we saw started with a red NaN value. Obviously this happens if a service is not running long enough to collect 30-day metrics.
Hence my suggestion to begin with "color": "grey" for "value": null. Then "red" may follow for a high negative value.

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