Every core SRE concept in one sentence, and the order to roll them out. Each links to a practical page: what it means, how to implement it in Azure and Grafana, and what done looks like.
How to Use This Section
Each concept is written for a senior manager: what it means in one sentence, the IT Ops equivalent, why it matters at your level, how to implement it in an Azure + Azure Managed Grafana + PagerDuty environment, what done looks like, what to ask, and where to read more in Google's free SRE books.
A Rollout Order That Works
If you're starting from firefighting, roll these out in order. Each one makes the next one possible.
A written agreement about what happens when the error budget runs low or is spent, for example "pause risky launches and put engineers on reliability fixes."
The three kinds of telemetry. Metrics are numbers over time. Logs are detailed records of events. Traces show one request's path through every service it touched.
Pages of graphs that help someone answer a specific question quickly. A good dashboard has a purpose and an audience. A bad one is a wall of every metric.
Canary: release to a small slice of users first. Feature flag: turn a feature on or off without a deploy. Rollback: return to the last good version quickly.
A checklist review before a new service or major feature goes live, to confirm it can be run safely: monitored, alerted, documented, owned, and reversible.
Knowing what your service relies on but doesn't control (the model provider, identity, third-party APIs), and what happens when each one is slow or down.