SLO notifications

Set up notifications for SLOs' error budget to keep your team informed about the remaining percentage and minutes, as well as the burn rate. With these alerts, you can ensure that your team is aware of any changes in your service's performance and take appropriate action as needed.

To set up notifications for a SLO:

1. In your Harness project, navigate to Service Reliability Management > SLOs, and then select the SLO to set up notification.

2. In the SLO page, go to the Configuration tab, and under Error Budget Policy (Optional), select + New Notification Rule.

3. In the New Notification wizard, do the following:

   1. Enter a name for the notification and select Continue.

   2. In the Conditions page, you can set the following conditions to trigger a notification:

      • Error budget remaining percentage reaches a specified value.
      • Error budget remaining minutes reaches a specified value.
      • Error budget burn rate is above a specified value.

      You can add multiple conditions.

   3. Select Next to go the Notification Method page.

   4. Select a Notification Method such as Slack, Email, PagerDuty, or Microsoft Teams and complete the following settings:

      Notification Method	Settings
      Slack	Enter the Slack Webhook URL to which the notification should be sent.
      Email	Enter the email addresses to which the notifications should be sent.
      PagerDuty	Enter the PagerDuty account or service key to the notifications should be sent.
      Microsoft Teams	Enter the Microsoft Teams Webhook URL(s) to which the notifications should be sent. You add multiple Micorsoft webhook URLs by selecting + Add.

      If you choose Slack, PagerDuty, or Microsoft Teams as your notification method, you can select a Harness user group that is part of a Harness project, organization, or an account. Notifications are sent to the Slack or Microsoft Teams channels that are associated with the selected user group.

      To create a new user group, click on Select User Group(s) and then + User Group. In the New User Group dialog, enter name for the group, an optional description and tags, and then Add Users. Select Save. The new user group appears in the user groups list.

   5. Select Test to verify that the alert is functioning correctly.

   6. Select Finish to save the settings. You should now see the notification rule displayed in the Error Budget Policy (Optional) section.

4. Enable the notification rule using toggle switch associated with it to start receiving alert notifications.