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In [[information technology]], a '''Service Level Indicator''' ('''SLI''') is a measure of the [[service level]] provided by a [[service provider]] to a customer. SLIs form the basis of [[Service Level Objective]]s (SLOs), which in turn form the basis of [[Service Level Agreement]]s (SLAs);<ref name="sre37"/> an SLI is thus also called an '''SLA metric'''.

Though every system is different in the services providesprovided, often common SLIs are used. Common SLIs include [[latency (engineering)|latency]], [[throughput]], [[availability]], and error rate; others include [[Durability (database systems)|durability]] (in storage systems), end-to-end latency (for complex data processing systems, especially pipelines), and correctness.<ref name="sre37">{{cite book |title=Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems |authors=Niall Richard Murphy, Betsy Beyer, Jennifer Petoff, Chris Jones |section=Service Level Terminology |pages=[https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/service-level-objectives.html#indicators-o8seIAcZ 37–40]}}</ref>

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