Create SLOs with AI suggestions

The knowledge graph can suggest Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for a service that doesn’t have any yet. The wizard uses the past 30 days of RED metrics to propose availability and latency SLOs. You review the suggestions and confirm them before they’re created.

After you create the SLOs, they appear in the service header SLOs list, the entity catalog SLOs tab, and the Grafana SLO list.

Before you begin

Activate the knowledge graph and have a service discovered in the entity catalog with enough request, error, and latency data for the assistant to analyze.

The wizard is available for services that don’t already have SLOs.

Open the SLO wizard

Sign in to Grafana Cloud and navigate to Observability > Entity catalog.
Select a service that doesn’t have SLOs.
Open the SLOs tab.
The tab shows No SLOs defined for the service and offers two options: Generate SLO proposals and Create manually.
Click Generate SLO proposals.
The tab shows that the assistant is drafting SLOs for the service. Click Cancel if you want to stop.

You can also start from the SLOs control in the service header. When the service has no SLOs, the list shows This service has no SLO yet. Click Create SLO. When you start the wizard from a specific service, the service name is already filled in.

To skip the suggestions and define the SLO yourself, click Create manually. That opens the SLO editor at Alerts & IRM > SLO > Manage SLOs > Create SLO. For the editor fields, refer to Create an SLO.

When the assistant can’t propose SLOs

If there isn’t enough request, error, or latency data, the assistant can’t derive meaningful SLOs. Try again later, or click Create manually to define the SLO yourself.

Review suggested SLOs

The assistant analyzes the service’s recent behavior and proposes availability and latency SLOs based on the past 30 days of RED metrics. Each proposal includes a short explanation of why the assistant chose those values.

Review the proposals and adjust any of the following before you create them:

Field	Description
Target (%)	The percent of events that must meet the objective.
Window (days)	The compliance window for the error budget.
Threshold (ms)	For latency SLOs, the maximum response time that counts as successful.
Team	An optional team assignment.
Folder	The folder where the SLOs are saved. Select a different folder if needed.

Clear a proposal if you don’t want to create it. Nothing is created until you confirm.

If the proposals don’t look right, click Regenerate to ask the assistant for a new set, or click Create manually to define the SLO yourself.

Create the SLOs

Click Create SLOs.
The button label includes the number of proposals you chose to keep.
Confirm that each selected SLO shows Created.
It can take a few minutes for the backend to start evaluating the SLOs and for them to appear on the SLOs tab. Click Reload to refresh the tab, or click View SLOs to open the SLOs list and see them right away.
Newly created SLOs can show Pending evaluation in the service header SLOs list until evaluation finishes.

View created SLOs

Open the SLOs list in the service header to see each objective’s name, SLI, remaining error budget, and evaluation status. Use View all to open the full list.

The SLOs tab shows a card for each objective, including the 7-day SLI against the target, error budget, and remaining budget. Newly created SLOs can show Pending until evaluation finishes. From a card, you can click View performance to open the Grafana SLO dashboard, or Edit SLO to open the knowledge graph SLO editor.

View performance opens Dashboards > Grafana SLO, where the same objectives appear in the Grafana SLO list. Newly created items can show as still being processed. Refresh the page or return later to see SLI and error budget values.

For the editor fields, refer to Create an SLO.