Application: govuk-sli-collector

Collects data about GOV.UK services and produces SLI metrics for use in SLO dashboards.

• GitHub: govuk-sli-collector
• Ownership: #govuk-publishing-platform owns the repo. #govuk-publishing-platform-system-alerts receives automated alerts for this repo.
• Category: Utilities
• Links:
  • Sentry (error tracking)
  • App dashboard: request rates, errors, durations
  • Kibana App Logs (Production, last 3 hours)
  • Kibana Worker Logs (Production, last 3 hours)
  • Argo CD (govuk-sli-collector)

README

Collects data about GOV.UK services and produces SLI metrics for use in SLO dashboards.

Nomenclature

SLI — service level indicator

a carefully defined quantitative measure of some aspect of the level of service that is provided[^1]

SLO — service level objective

a target value or range of values for a service level that is measured by an SLI[^1]

[^1]: Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

Technical documentation

This is a Ruby script.

In production, it’s run from a scheduled task via its ./collect executable.

Running the linter

bundle exec rubocop

Running the test suite

bundle exec rspec

Deployments

This project requires manual deployment.

More detailed information about deployments…

Licence

MIT License