Finally, some sanity and perfectly acceptable SLO downtimes for ... a FREE
SERVICE TO THE WORLD.

Thad
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On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 2:15 AM Ryan Kemper <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As a part of the ongoing work to ensure that Wikidata Query Service (WDQS)
> continues to be available and functional for users, *we have implemented
> a Service Level Objective (SLO) for WDQS uptime*. We currently aim to
> maintain a *95% uptime* based on a *90 day rolling window*, in keeping
> with Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) SLO reporting standards
> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SLO#SLO_reporting>.
>
> Effectively this means that the WMF will be responsible, along with
> Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE), for *making sure that WDQS is available at
> least 95% of the time*, which equates to the following acceptable amounts
> of downtime:
>
> *Daily*: 1h 12m
> *Weekly*: 8h 24m
> *Monthly*: 1d 12h 13m 27s
> *Quarterly*: 4d 12h 40m 22s
> *Yearly*: 18d 2h 41m 28s
>
> It also means that we can focus on other priorities if we are meeting this
> SLO. We believe that this should help formalize our commitment to ensuring
> WDQS is available for users while still making time to work on long-term
> scaling initiatives for the future of WDQS. It will also formalize the
> limitations of what we are able to support, allowing us to avoid being
> overly reactive to fluctuations in inherently unstable system performance
> in a way that has previously required us to wake people up on weekends to
> resolve.
>
> The current status of the SLO is available here:
> https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/l-3CMlN4z/wdqs-uptime-slo?orgId=1
> The gauge (top left) indicates the current WDQS uptime over the past 90
> days. The WDQS Uptime SLO graph (top right) indicates the historic
> point-in-time uptime based on user traffic, with the red horizontal line at
> our SLO of 95%. For specifics on how our uptime metric is computed, see our 
> WDQS
> SLO documentation
> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SLO/WDQS#Service_Level_Indicators_(SLIs)>
> .
>
> As always, we appreciate your patience as we work on improving WDQS. If
> you have further questions about the new uptime SLO, please don’t hesitate
> to respond to this email.
>
> Best,
> Ryan Kemper
> Site Reliability Engineer, Search Platform
>
>
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