SRE Best Practices Practical By Samson Tanimawo, PhD Published Jun 22, 2026 4 min read

The Weekly Health Review Format

30 minutes weekly to track every service's health. The agenda, the rotation, and what the team learns that no one-off review surfaces.

Agenda

5 min: review last week's incidents. Sev 1-2 only; sev 3-4 are noise at this level.

10 min: review SLO performance trends. Per service; deltas only if material.

10 min: review burn-rates and projected end-of-quarter performance.

5 min: action items from prior weeks; status update.

Who attends

On-call this week (situational awareness).

On-call next week (preparation).

Service owners for any service in red.

SRE leadership.

Output

One-page summary in the team's wiki. Trends, decisions, action items.

Decisions: any service that is consistently red gets a remediation plan with owner.

The cadence is the point. Weekly catches drift before it becomes incident-causing.