Observability · Multiple choice

Why do teams avoid setting an SLO of 100%?

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A user on mobile data sees far more failures from their own connection than from a 99.99% service. A 100% target makes every deploy, failover and experiment a violation, so the team either stops shipping or ignores the SLO. Pick the lowest target users are happy with.

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