Definition
Error-budget burn rate
Burn rate 1 would use exactly the whole budget in exactly the period.
- Burn rate
- multiple of the sustainable rate of spending the error budget
Worked examples, recomputed
Every number the mechanisms quote for this relationship is recomputed from it, so none of them disagrees with it.
- 14.4× over 1 hour → 2% of the month's budget
- 6× over 6 hours → 5%
- at 14.4× the month's budget lasts 50 hours
Where it appears
Each mechanism states it in its own names. The general symbol each name stands for is shown with it.
- Observability & Operations
What is the smallest description of a running system from which we can find a fault, fast enough to matter, at a cost we can still pay while the system is failing?