Commit bea2f69d authored by Bob Van Landuyt's avatar Bob Van Landuyt Committed by Achilleas Pipinellis

Add blurb about error budgets

This adds a short blurb on the stage group dashboards and how the
budget is calculated.
parent 87f877e7
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The dashboards for stage groups are at a very early stage. All contributions are welcome. If you have any questions or suggestions, please submit an issue in the [Scalability Team issues tracker](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/scalability/-/issues/new).
## Dashboard content
### Error budget
By default, the first row of the panels on the dashboard will show the error
budget for the stage group. This row shows how the features owned by
the group are contributing to our [overall
availability](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure/performance-indicators/#gitlabcom-availability).
The budget is always aggregated over the 28 days before the [time
selected on the dashboard](#time-range-controls).
We're currently displaying the information in 2 formats:
1. Availability: This number can be compared to GitLab.com's overall
availability target of 99.95% uptime.
1. Budget Spent: This shows the time over the past 28 days that
features owned by the group have not been performing adequately.
We're still discussing which of these is more understandable, please
contribute in
[Scalability issue #946](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/scalability/-/issues/946)
if you have thoughts on this topic.
The budget is calculated based on indicators per component. Each
component has 2 indicators:
1. [Apdex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apdex): The rate of
operations that performed adequately.
1. Error rate: The rate of operations that had errors.
The calculation to a ratio then happens as follows:
```math
\frac {operations\_meeting\_apdex + (total\_operations - operations\_with_\errors)} {total\_apdex\_measurements + total\_operations}
```
*Caveat:* Not all components are included, causing the
calculation to be less accurate for some groups. We're working on
adding all components in
[&437](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-com/gl-infra/-/epics/437). This
could cause the dashboard to display "No Data" for features with lower
traffic.
## Usage
Inside a stage group dashboard, there are some notable components. Let's take the [Source Code group's dashboard](https://dashboards.gitlab.net/d/stage-groups-source_code/stage-groups-group-dashboard-create-source-code?orgId=1) as an example.
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