Why Multi Window Multi Burn Rate SLO Alerting Sucks!

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are great! Alerts based on SLOs are great! Alerts based on SLOs promise to reduce noise by only alerting on true service degradations, reducing noise and alert fatigue. Everyone uses the multi-window multi-burn-rate (MWMB) method for defining SLO alerts, because Google recommends it. But now that I've seen how this alert behaves in the real world, I think it's an…