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Status Needs more information
Workspace Instana
Categories SLO/SLI (STAN)
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 23, 2025

Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that.

If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day or have the option to choose X hours.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Jeremy Hughes
    Nov 18, 2025

    Hi, thank you for submitting this idea.

    It is possible to achieve this creating a Correction Window and applying it to the SLO you've created. Correction Windows are typically used when there is maintenance planned in the future and any reduction in Service Level should not be counted against the error budget during that window. (It can also be made to apply retrospectively so isn't quite the same as Instana maintenance windows). See this page in the documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.309?topic=slos-slo-correction-windows

    So you would create an SLO to monitor for login failures over the course of a day / week / month etc or a rolling SLO. Then you would create a Correction Window to exclude 10 hours from 10pm.

    If you have an SLO that is event based and you define the bad events as being HTTP 401 responses and good events as being all other responses, to the login page, then all events, good and bad, during the Correction Window will be ignored for the purposes of error budget.