# How SRE Teams Use Service Level Objectives to Drive Reliability

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Podcast: [The Site Reliability Podcast with Fexingo: SRE, Uptime, and Production Engineering](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-site-reliability-podcast-with-fexingo-sre-uptime-and-production-engineering-7871923)
Published: 2026-06-26T22:14:06+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-site-reliability-podcast/episode-0075.mp3
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## Resource

In this episode of The Site Reliability Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the practical use of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in site reliability engineering. They discuss how a major European bank reduced pager fatigue by 40% by shifting from alert-based monitoring to SLO-based error budgets. Lucas explains the difference between SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, and why measuring user-facing latency is more actionable than measuring CPU utilization. Luna shares a story about a gaming company that used SLOs to prevent a catastrophic launch day outage. They also cover common pitfalls, like setting too many SLOs or targets that are too tight. The episode includes a brief, natural mention of listener support at buy me a coffee dot com slash fexingo. Tune in for a focused, actionable conversation on making SLOs work in real production environments. #SRE #SiteReliabilityEngineering #ServiceLevelObjectives #ErrorBudgets #SLI #SLA #Alerting #IncidentResponse #ProductionEngineering #Uptime #ReliabilityEngineering #Monitoring #Observability #TechPodcast #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Technology #DevOps Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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