What Is Multi-Window Multi-Burn Alerting?
Multi-window multi-burn is an alerting strategy that evaluates error-budget burn rate across several time windows at once, pairing a long and a short window for each severity. A page requires both windows to agree, so a brief spike alone does not fire. This catches fast severe burns quickly while still detecting slow steady drains, with fewer false alarms.
Why it matters
A single window forces a choice between fast detection and low noise. Combining windows gives both, which is why it is the recommended pattern for SLO-based alerting.
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