SLO objective unique identifier

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Every SLO objective you create with Nobl9 features a name identifier in the YAML definition.

When you create a new SLO without specifying the name, Nobl9 generates it automatically as you're entering the display name for this objective. You can then update the name only through sloctl. Such a modification is allowed only once per objective using sloctl, the Nobl9 Terraform Provider, or the Nobl9 SDK for Go!. To edit the objective's name, you can do the following:

sloctl

• Run sloctl get slos and replace the files in your repository with those returned by the command, or
• Run sloctl get slos, change the generated names, and then run apply (optional).

Nobl9 Terraform Provider

For an SLO created in the Nobl9 Terraform Provider with auto-generated names (like in the example below):

  resource "nobl9_slo" "example-slo" {
    name = "example-slo"
    project = "example-project"
    service = "example-service
    budgeting_method = "Occurrences"
    indicator {
      ...
    }
    objective {
      name = "objective-1"
      value = 2
      target = 0.99
      count_metrics {
        ...
      }
    }
    time_window {
      ...
    }
}

You can explicitly rename the objective by modifying the name fields, as shown below:

resource "nobl9_slo" "example-slo" {
    name = "example-slo"
    project = "example-project"
    service = "example-service
    budgeting_method = "Occurrences"
    indicator {
      ...
    }
    objective {
      name = "objective-1"
      value = 2
      target = 0.99
      count_metrics {
        ...
      }
    }
    time_window {
      ...
    }
}

note

You can’t change the name once you’ve updated it.

Changing auto-generated objective names won't reset error budget calculations and charts.

Nobl9 requires the name value to be unique across all objectives within a single SLO. Also, the objective name is required in YAML files. Once you save the objective, name becomes read-only.