Create a Site Reliability Guardian

When creating a new Site Reliability Guardian, you have two options: create it from a pre-defined template, or manually provide all the required input.

Create from a template

In the Dynatrace Launcher, select Site Reliability Guardian .
Select + Guardian to create a new guardian.
In the template you want to use, select Use template.
Adjust the name of the guardian in the top.
optional Add a description on the right-hand side.
optional Assign tags.
Refine your objectives on the left-hand side. Be sure to replace all placeholders (PLACEHOLDER) in your DQL queries with actual values.
Select Create.

Create manually

In the Dynatrace Launcher, select Site Reliability Guardian .
Select + Guardian to create a new guardian.
Select Create without template.
Set the name of the guardian in the top.
optional Add a description on the right-hand side.
optional Assign tags.
Add objectives on the left-hand side. Use a custom DQL query, or reference an existing SLO.
Select Create.

Templates

The following examples are provided:

Template	Description
Kubernetes workload saturation	Safeguard your Kubernetes environment with dedicated resource utilization objectives for a Kubernetes workload (i.e., K8s deployment). The objectives focus on memory and CPU consumption of the workload.
Kubernetes cluster saturation	Constantly check the resource consumption of your Kubernetes environment by validating CPU and memory objectives of a Kubernetes cluster.
Kubernetes namespace saturation	Safeguard your Kubernetes environment with dedicated resource utilization objectives for a Kubernetes namespace. The objectives focus on memory and CPU consumption of the namespace including a reliability objective on the container restarts.
Host utilization and saturation	Protect your infrastructure with resource consumption and saturation objectives for a dedicated host.
Security gate	Establish a security gate in your release process to ensure your releases have no known and exploitable vulnerabilities.