# From Alert Chaos to Reliability: SLOs and Error Budgets in Action

> Learn how to build reliable, low-noise alerting with SLOs. This session covers practical setup, error-budget policies, and how OpenObserve reduces alert fatigue for high-scale engineering teams.

Source: https://openobserve.ai/webinars-videos/slo-alerts/
Published: 2026-01-07
Authors: Simran Kumari, Manas Sharma
Duration: 1 hour

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How SLO-based alerting helps teams cut noise, focus on real user impact, and build smarter alert policies using OpenObserve with OpenTelemetry.

## What you'll learn

- Understand how to design SLOs that reflect actual user impact.
- Learn how to create actionable, low-noise alert policies tied to error budgets.
- See how to apply SLO-based alerting using OpenObserve and telemetry data.

Most teams still struggle with noisy, reactive alerting that pulls engineers into incidents that don’t matter. In this webinar, we’ll walk through how SLO-based alerting helps teams shift from chasing symptoms to monitoring what actually impacts users. We’ll cover how to define meaningful SLOs, create burnout-reducing alert policies, and connect error budgets directly to your engineering workflows. You’ll also see how OpenObserve implements SLO-based alerting with lightweight, high-scale data collection built on OpenTelemetry.

## Resources

- [Quick Start](https://openobserve.ai/docs/getting-started/)
- [SLO-Based Alerting in OpenObserve](https://openobserve.ai/blog/slo-based-alerting/)