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SRE automation
before alerts fire.

One sre.yaml file. Define everything. Automate anything.

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Gobuilt with
sre.yaml
service: payments-api
team: platform-engineering

slos:
  - name: availability
    target: 99.9
    window: 30d

error_budget:
  burn_rate_alerts:
    - rate: 14.4x
      severity: critical
      remediate: scale-up

runbooks:
  scale-up:
    mode: auto
    steps:
      - kubectl scale deploy/payments
          --replicas=+2

# Burnless detects → fixes → notifies
# No 3am pages.

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Everything you need

SRE as code, end to end

SLO tracking

Define uptime targets in sre.yaml. Burnless tracks error budget in real time.

Burn rate detection

Alerts before your budget is gone. 14.4× rate = 2 days left.

Executable runbooks

Auto-scale pods, restart services. Steps defined in sre.yaml.

Alerts & notifications

Slack and PagerDuty built in. Notify the right people at the right time.

Auto remediation

Fix incidents before engineers are paged. Configurable semi-auto mode.

Config as code

Every change is a PR. Full audit trail. Rollback in seconds.

The problem

Before and after Burnless

Before
With Burnless
SLOs
Defined in Datadog UI — not reviewable in Git
Declared in sre.yaml — version controlled
Runbooks
Written in Confluence — stale, nobody runs them
Executable steps in sre.yaml — always up to date
Alerts
Configured manually in Grafana — drift between environments
Generated from sre.yaml — consistent everywhere
On-call
Managed in PagerDuty UI — no audit trail
Declared in sre.yaml — every change reviewed in a PR
Incidents
Engineer paged at 3am
Auto-remediated before paging anyone

Get running in minutes

Up and running in 4 steps

1

Install

$ brew install burnless
2

Define your SLO

$ burnless init
3

Validate

$ burnless validate
4

Deploy

$ burnless agent

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