- Course structure
- What's the difference between DevOps and SRE? - Intro
- What's the difference between DevOps and SRE?
- Now SRE Everyone Else with CRE! - Intro
- Now SRE Everyone Else with CRE!
- CRE's Three Reliability Principles
- Reliability in the Cloud
- How SLOs help your business make decisions
- How SLOs help you build features faster
- How SLOs help you balance operational and project work
- Making SLOs work for your organization
Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability
Develop your skills in determining service reliability by enrolling for the Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability course by Coursera.
Intermediate
Online
4 Weeks
Free
Quick facts
particular | details | |
---|---|---|
Medium of instructions
English
|
Mode of learning
Self study
|
Mode of Delivery
Video and Text Based
|
Course overview
Courses on Coursera are taught by instructors from worldwide universities and companies. These courses provide access to on-demand video lectures, quizzes, homework exercises, projects, and community discussion forums. Coursera has come up with this course along with Google Cloud to give the learners an opportunity to make more reliable business decisions.
The framework of the Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability course by Coursera has been tailor-made for learners who wish to gain knowledge about Site Reliability Engineering and start off their career in that direction. The course intends to equip the participants with the skills required to measure and manage reliability.
This course will provide the participants with a detailed understanding of the different components of Site Reliability Engineering, Customer Reliability Engineering and Service Level Objectives. They will also learn about the usage of Service Level Indicators while making business decisions for better reliability. It will familiarize the participants with the various practices and theories of managing and measuring reliability.
The highlights
- Shareable certificate programme
- 100% Online learning
- Completion takes approximately 7 hours
- Subtitles in English and Spanish
Program offerings
- E-learning videos
- Practice exercises
Course and certificate fees
Type of course
Fee details for Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability course by Coursera
Heads | Amount in INR |
Course fee | Free |
Certificate fee | 2,378 |
- Candidates can audit this course for free
- If candidates want the certificate of the course they can get it by purchasing the course.
certificate availability
certificate providing authority
certificate fees
Eligibility criteria
Certification Qualifying Details
Participants have to successfully complete the following in order to receive the course completion certificate:
- Complete name verification
- Pass all the required assignments given in the course
- Pay the course certificate fee
What you will learn
The completion of the Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability course by Coursera will give the participants a firmer grasp of the following:
- The core concepts of Site Reliability Engineering
- Understanding the theory of Service Level Objectives
- Learning the drafting of an error budget policy
- Expertise in defining Service Level Indicator specifications
- Learning how to make reliable business decisions
Admission details
Filling the form
Applicants who wish to apply for Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability course by Coursera can follow the steps given below:
Step 1: Visit the website of the course.
Step 2: Select the Enroll option available on the left side of the screen.
Step 3: Candidates have to sign up with Coursera before they can proceed further.
Step 4: After making an account, candidates will be given the option of choosing between the Purchase course and audit only. They can choose the appropriate mode according to their preferences.
Step 5: If they choose a purchased course, they will have to make a payment for the same before they can gain access to the course material.
Step 6: If they choose to audit only, they will be given instant access to the course.
The syllabus
Week 1: Introduction to SRE
Videos
Practice Exercise
- DevOps/SRE
Week 1: Targeting Reliability
Videos
- Introduction
- SLOs vs SLAs
- The happiness test
- How do we measure reliability?
- Edge cases
- 100% is the wrong target
- Iterating
Practice Exercises
- A working service
- SLOs and SLAs
- Reliability and iterating
- Targeting Reliability Assessment
Week 1: Operating for Reliability
Videos
- Introduction
- Error budgets
- Everything is a trade-off
- Error budgets: advanced concepts
- Axes of improvement
- Operational approach to increasing reliability
- Module summary
Practice Exercises
- Error budgets
- Increasing reliability
- Operating for Reliability Assessment
Week 2: Choosing a Good SLI
Videos
- Introduction
- User happiness in metric form
- The properties of good SLI metrics
- Ways of measuring SLIs
- The SLI menu
- The SLI equation
- Request / Response SLIs
- Data processing SLIs
- But my system is really complex!
- Managing complexity with aggregation
- Managing complexity with bucketing
- Achieveable SLOs
- Aspirational SLOs
- Continuous improvement
Practice Exercises
- Measuring happiness
- Commonly used SLIs
- Correctness and Coverage
Week 3: Developing SLOs and SLIs
Videos
- Introduction
- The 4-step process
- Our example game
- Loading the profile page
- Refining SLI specifications
- Looking for observability gaps
- Failure modes
Practice Exercises
- Postmortem!
- Setting Achievable SLO targets
Week 4: Quantifying Risks to SLOs
Videos
- Introduction
- Is your error budget realistic?
- Modeling risks in our spreadsheet
- Analyzing risk
Week 4: Consequences of SLO Misses
Videos
- Introduction
- No surprises
- A dashboard example
- Why an error budget policy?
- Fundamentals of an error budget policy
- How to draft an error budget policy
- Example policy thresholds
- A hypothetical policy scenario
- Course conclusion and video wrap up
Practice Exercises
- Error budget policies
- Error budget policy - considerations
- Consequences of SLO Misses
Scholarship Details
Financial aid is provided to the participants who cannot afford to pay for their certificates.
To receive the Coursera Financial Aid or a Scholarship, participants have to:
- Fill out an application providing information about their education, career goals, and financial circumstances.
- Commit to abide by the Honor Code and the Code of Conduct of Coursera.
How it helps
The Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability course by Coursera is an online platform for learners who wish to get in-depth knowledge about Site Reliability Engineering.
Once the course gets completed, the participants will have a detailed perspective about CRE's Three Reliability Principles, building Service Level Objectives and its usage for balancing project operations, the happiness test, process of developing Service Level Indicators, analyzing, modelling risks and various other components of Site Reliability Engineering. They will be skilled and capable enough to measure and manage reliability for making business decisions and sustaining them smoothly.
The practice assignments will enable the participants to review and apply their understanding of the learned concepts. The coursework will help the theoretical as well the practical knowledge called for. This training by Google Cloud will enable the participants to apply their principles to develop their first SLOs for services they are acquainted with within their own organizations. It will make the participants industry-ready.
FAQs
Access to lectures and assignments is given depending upon the type of enrolment made by the candidate. If the course is taken in audit mode, then most of the course material is for free. Access to graded assignments and to earn a Certificate, the Certificate experience has to be purchased during or after the audit.
The Course certificate includes the name of the course, the logo of the partner institution offering the course. The instructor's signature, a verification URL can also be included in the partner institution.
No, Coursera provides course certificates as downloadable PDF files, which can be printed by the participants. They can also be shared electronically.
Yes, the participants can download the videos for offline viewing. You can download the subtitles of the videos as a transcript file to read.
Coursera Plus provides access to the majority of the courses on Coursera upon payment of an annual subscription. Participants can take as many courses as they like. There is no limit upon the number of courses they can enrol in or Course Certificates they can earn.
Coursera supports the most recent version of Google Chrome (recommended), Safari, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11.
Coursera uses a third-party tool, Qwiklabs in some of its courses for labs. It requires the latest version of Firefox, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Edge; Microsoft Internet Explorer 11+ or Safari 8+.
There is no grade penalty for missing a deadline. The majority of the courses have personalized deadlines that begin when the participants enrol in a course. Some courses are on the session so if the participants miss a deadline they will have to switch sessions.
Articles
Popular Articles
Latest Articles
Similar Courses
Principles of Computing Part 1
Rice University, Houston via Coursera
Embedded Systems and Robotics Fluency
Georgia Tech via Udacity
Introduction to Computer Vision
Georgia Tech via Udacity
Basic Recommender Systems
Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan via Coursera
Computer Systems Design for Energy Efficiency
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg via Edx
Computational Geometry
SPbU via Coursera
Computers, Waves, Simulations A Practical Introduc...
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich via Coursera
Fundamentals of Parallelism on Intel Architecture
Intel via Coursera
Courses of your interest
Salesforce Administrator and App Builder
SkillUp Online via Simplilearn
Introduction to Medical Software
Yale University, New Haven via Coursera
Google Cloud Architect Program
Google Cloud via SkillUp Online
Google Cloud Architect Program
Google via SkillUp Online
Information Security Design and Development
Coventry University, Coventry via Futurelearn
Ethics Laws and Implementing an AI Solution on Mic...
CloudSwyft Global Systems, Inc via Futurelearn
Network Security and Defence
Coventry University, Coventry via Futurelearn
Cyber Security Foundations Start Building Your Car...
EC-Council via Futurelearn
Applied Data Analysis
CloudSwyft Global Systems, Inc via Futurelearn
More Courses by Google
Advanced Training
Certified Trainer
Building No-Code Apps with AppSheet Implementation
Google via Coursera
Contact Center Artificial Intelligence Operations ...
Google via Coursera
Building Batch Data Pipelines on GCP
Google via Coursera
Enterprise Database Migration
Google via Coursera
Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Clou...
Google via Coursera
Migrating to Google Cloud
Google via Coursera
Building Resilient Streaming Analytics Systems on ...
Google via Coursera
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure Foundation
Google via Coursera