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title: "Configure target and save your SLO | Grafana Labs"
description: "Set your reliability target, name your SLO, and save it."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Configure target and save your SLO

After defining your SLI, set a target that indicates good performance for your service. The target determines your error budget—the amount of unreliability you can tolerate before users are affected. You’ll also name your SLO and optionally add alert rules.

To configure and save your SLO, complete the following steps:

01. In the SLO wizard, click **Set target and error budget**.
02. In the **Target** field, enter a percentage greater than 0 and less than 100 (e.g., `99.9` for a “three nines” availability target).
    
    The error budget is automatically calculated as 100% minus your target. For a 99.9% target, your error budget is 0.1% of total events. For example, if your service handles 1,000,000 requests in 28 days, your budget allows up to 1,000 errors before breaching the SLO.
03. Review the statistical predictions displayed in the wizard.
    
    The wizard queries 90 days of history and shows the probability of meeting your SLO target. Use this to sense-check whether your target is achievable. If the probability is very low, consider a slightly lower target or improving reliability first.
04. Click **Add name and description**.
05. In the **Name** field, enter a short, meaningful name for your SLO (e.g., `API Gateway Availability`).
06. In the **Description** field, enter a description that explains what the SLO measures.
07. From the **Folder** dropdown, select an existing folder or click **+ Create folder** to create a new one.
    
    Optionally, add labels to categorize your SLO for searching and management.
08. Click **Add SLO alert rules**.
    
    You can edit the alert rules here and configure the notification message. To read more about SLO alert rules, refer to [Add SLO alert rules](/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/slo/create/#add-slo-alert-rules).
09. Click **Review SLO** to review the SLO you created.
10. Click **Save and view all SLOs**.

Your SLO is created and appears in the SLO list. The wizard generates dashboards, recording rules, and any alert rules you configured.

In the next milestone, you’ll monitor your SLO and interpret the error budget burndown chart.

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### More to explore (optional)

At this point in your journey, you can explore the following paths:

- [Error budgets explained](/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/slo/)
- [SLI examples](/docs/slo/latest/sli-examples/)