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Part 4 of 6: burn-rate alerts through the existing alert engine. This is the multiwindow, multi-burn-rate pattern from the Google SRE workbook, chapter 5.
Tiers
Critical (page): 14.4x burn over both 1h and 5m.
Warning (ticket): 6x burn over both 6h and 30m.
The rule behind each SLO
Each SLO owns a hidden slo_burn_rate alert rule, written in the same transaction as the SLO. This is the same ownership model uptime monitors use.
The evaluator reads the four burn windows in one query and judges each tier on its own pair of windows. Incidents, hysteresis, destinations, delivery, silences and escalation are all the engine's.
No window is longer than 6h, so MAX_ALERT_WINDOW_MINUTES stays at 24h.
Edge cases
No-events hold. A tier whose short window saw no events holds its state. An outage or ingest gap therefore can't resolve a page.
Notifications say which windows burn and at what rate, for example "SLO burning the error budget at 20x over 1h and 22x over 5m (critical at 14.4x)".
Hidden managed rules. Uptime and SLO rules now share one check, isManagedSignalType. It hides them from the rule list and the active-rule cap, and refuses generic edits and deletes.
Limits. An org can have at most 50 SLOs. Editing an SLO restores its rule if the rule's row is gone.
Low traffic. A low-traffic service can still page on a few bad events, because the math reads them as a high burn. That is intentional: the windows are the de-flapping.
Verification
Scheduler tests cover: a fast burn pages, and the incident resolves once the short window recovers; an outage holds the page open; a slow burn opens a warning; a burn within budget opens nothing.
They also cover: the rule is hidden and refused by the generic rule APIs; disabling alerting; deleting the SLO deletes its rule; an unknown destination is refused; a missing rule is restored.
The existing alert, uptime and API alert suites pass: 531 backend tests in the alerts and SLOs folders, and 387 tests across the v2 routes.
Each SLO owns a hidden slo_burn_rate alert rule, written with the SLO in one
transaction. The evaluator reads the SLO's 5m/30m/1h/6h burn and judges each
tier on its own pair of windows: critical at 14.4x over 1h and 5m, warning at
6x over 6h and 30m. Incidents, destinations and delivery are the engine's.
Uptime and SLO rules share one managed-rule check (isManagedSignalType) that
hides them from the rule list and cap and refuses generic edits.
- A tier whose short window saw no events holds its state; with every tier
held the check is skipped as no data, so an outage cannot resolve a page.
- Notifications carry the check's own sentence (both windows and the tier).
- At most 50 SLOs per org; each one's rule reads the warehouse every minute.
- An edit restores a rule whose row is gone.
- Shared persistence mapper and org rule lock; history reads one hour less.
SLOs now expose alerting settings and use managed alert rules for burn-rate evaluation. The changes add rule lifecycle handling, burn-window processing, API support, and burn-rate display across backend, web, and iOS surfaces.
Changes: SLO Alerting
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Summary
SLO and signal contracts packages/domain/src/http/alerts.ts, packages/domain/src/slo.ts, packages/domain/src/http/v2/slos.ts, apps/api/src/routes/v2/slos.http.ts, apps/api/src/routes/v2/slos.http.test.ts
The domain and API define SLO alerting settings and the slo_burn_rate signal. The API returns alerting state and maps supplied alerting fields into service requests.
Alert-rule operations now identify both uptime and SLO burn-rate rules as managed. Managed rules are excluded from generic listings and cannot be changed or deleted through generic rule operations.
SLO create, update, and delete operations manage associated alert rules in transactions. The service validates destinations and rule names, applies the SLO limit, and builds rules with warning and critical tiers.
The alert source reads burn windows for an SLO. Alert processing evaluates those windows and handles missing observations. Tests cover tier states, incidents, recovery, rule restoration, and validation.
Burn-rate signal display packages/backend/src/services/alerts/alert-signal-display.ts, packages/backend/src/services/alerts/alert-formatting.ts, packages/backend/src/services/alerts/AlertDeliveryDispatch.ts, packages/web-data/src/alerts/*, apps/ios/Maple/Components/AlertFormatting.swift, apps/ios/Packages/MapleAPI/Sources/MapleAPI/openapi.json
Backend, web, and iOS surfaces label and format SLO burn rates. Managed rules are hidden from the web overview while their incidents remain visible.
sequenceDiagram
participant AlertsService
participant SloAlertSource
participant Database
participant WarehouseQueryService
participant evaluateSloBurn
AlertsService->>SloAlertSource: observe organization, rule, and evaluation time
SloAlertSource->>Database: find SLO matching organization and rule
SloAlertSource->>WarehouseQueryService: read SLO burn windows
SloAlertSource-->>AlertsService: return optional burn windows
AlertsService->>evaluateSloBurn: evaluate observed burn windows
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Possibly related PRs
MapleTechLabs/maple#1858: Adds hidden uptime rules and managed-rule restrictions that this change extends to SLO rules.
MapleTechLabs/maple#2284: Changes paging deduplication and critical-key resolution for two-tier rules, including handling applied to incident.io.
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F1 fixed: a recovery message now names every tier, for example "SLO within budget: 0.4x over 1h and 0.2x over 5m (critical at 14.4x); 0.5x over 6h and 0.3x over 30m (warning at 6x)". A resolved warning now reports the windows it fired on. Pinned by slo-alert-rule.test.ts.
…s for the cap and a held tier
A burn signal unit on the server and on iOS keeps the multiplier and one
decimal, matching the web. isManagedSignalType reads MANAGED_SIGNAL_TYPES.
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Each SLO now owns a hidden slo_burn_rate rule written in the same transaction, whose evaluator judges a critical (1h+5m, 14.4x) and a warning (6h+30m, 6x) tier on their own window pairs through the existing incident engine. The change is safe to merge; the outstanding items are copy and flag-state, not behavior.
sloRuleFields/evaluateSloBurn write and judge the hidden per-SLO burn rule
isManagedSignalType hides uptime and SLO rules from the rule APIs and the active cap
SLO update rewrites its rule and restores one whose row is gone
Destinations are split per tier and validated against the org
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Traces from the preview (deployment.environment = pr-2298, last 6h)
These come from the preview's alerting worker, which evaluates the SLO's hidden slo_burn_rate rule every minute. This is read-only data from Maple's own telemetry, in the internal org.
span
count
p50
p95
errors
AlertsService.evaluateRule
360
69 ms
129 ms
0
SloAlertSource.observe
360
68 ms
125 ms
0
SloReads.burnWindows
360
63 ms
116 ms
0
↳ WarehouseQueryService.executeCompiledQuery
360
63 ms
122 ms
0
AlertsService.runSchedulerTick (all rules)
720
114 ms
336 ms
0
One warehouse query per SLO check. Each burn read issues exactly one query: 360 checks, 360 queries. That single query covers all four burn windows (5m, 30m, 1h, 6h). There is no per-window fan-out, no N+1 and no retries.
What a check costs. Almost all of a check's time is the warehouse round trip; the evaluation logic itself adds about 5 ms.
What the traces don't show. The preview API's request traces are sampled (4 maple-api spans in the window), so SlosService.status and /statuses don't appear. The local benchmark on feat(slos): SLI, error budget and burn rates #2295 measures those reads: about 20k rows and 6 ms p50 for a 30-day window. The preview test confirmed the SLOs tab makes one statuses request.
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Stack: #2293 model, #2294 latency ladder, #2295 compute, #2296 burn alerts, #2297 MCP, #2298 UI
Part 4 of 6: burn-rate alerts through the existing alert engine. This is the multiwindow, multi-burn-rate pattern from the Google SRE workbook, chapter 5.
Tiers
The rule behind each SLO
slo_burn_ratealert rule, written in the same transaction as the SLO. This is the same ownership model uptime monitors use.MAX_ALERT_WINDOW_MINUTESstays at 24h.Edge cases
isManagedSignalType. It hides them from the rule list and the active-rule cap, and refuses generic edits and deletes.Verification
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