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SLO Alert Configuration Wizard

Guides you through setting up PromQL-based SLO alerts in Google Cloud Monitoring and outputs Terraform.

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google/skills
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Apache-2.0
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5 files

What it does

When installed, the agent acts as a step-by-step setup wizard for Service Level Objective (SLO) alerts in Google Cloud Monitoring. It asks you for the target service, the reliability target, the indicator being measured, and the alert condition, then writes Terraform (.tf) files that create the alerting policies. It can also use gcloud to look up your App Hub services or underlying resources to fill in details for you.

Great for

  • Site reliability or platform engineers who want SLO-based alerts on Cloud Run or other Google Cloud services
  • Teams that manage Google Cloud infrastructure with Terraform and want generated alert policy code
  • Users who already know their SLO target and metric and want help with the PromQL and configuration structure

Skip it if

  • Standard, non-SLO alerting policies, which the skill's own description says it does not cover
  • Users without a Google Cloud project or Terraform workflow, since the output is Terraform and the lookups need gcloud access
  • Anyone expecting the skill to verify that generated alerts work in production, as it only produces configuration files

Try asking

  • “Set up a 99.9% availability SLO alert for my Cloud Run service frontend in project my-proj”
  • “Discover the services in my App Hub application and suggest SLO alerts for the most critical backends”
  • “Generate Terraform for a latency SLO on my workload using the best-practice defaults”
Step-by-step guide: how to use SLO Alert Configuration WizardInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 5 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    google-cloud-slo-alert-configuration.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip google-cloud-slo-alert-configuration.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip google-cloud-slo-alert-configuration.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Give the agent the project, service name, and SLO target up front so it can skip questions it doesn't need to ask.
  • Review the generated Terraform and the PromQL math before applying it, and add your own notification channels, since none are set by default.
  • Say 'use best practices' to let the agent fill in remaining defaults, but check that the defaults match your reliability goals.

What's inside

  • references/app_hub_labels.md
  • references/attribution.md
  • references/promql_templates.md
  • references/service_metrics.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from google/skills under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.