Templates & Checklists

This appendix provides ready-to-use templates and checklists you can adapt for your organization. Copy, customize, and put them to work immediately.

Available Templates

Incident Response Templates

Postmortem and runbook templates for documenting and responding to incidents. Use these to establish consistent incident practices across your team.

SLO & SLI Templates

Service Level Objective documentation template with SLI definitions, error budget policies, and compliance tracking.

Checklists

Production readiness, weekly team health checks, new SRE onboarding, and change review checklists to ensure nothing gets missed.

Reference Cards

Golden signals and incident severity quick reference tables.

Communication Templates

Email templates for requesting SRE tools budget and proposing an SRE program.

These templates are starting points. Adapt them to your organization’s needs, culture, and tooling. The best templates are living documents that evolve with your team.