Service Level Agreement (SLA) - Temporal Cloud

What is Temporal Cloud's Service Level Agreement? SLA?

Temporal Cloud provides 99.99% availability, and its service level agreement (SLA) has a 99.9% guarantee against service errors.

To calculate the service-error rate, we capture all requests that arrive in a Namespace during a five-minute interval and record the number of gRPC service errors that occurred. For each Namespace, we calculate the service-error rate as 1 - (count of errors / count of requests). Rates are averaged per month and reset quarterly.

Errors that are recorded against the SLA are service errors, such as the UNAVAILABLE gRPC status code.

Errors that aren't counted against the SLA include the following:

ClientVersionNotSupported
InvalidArgument
NamespaceAlreadyExists
NamespaceInvalidState
NamespaceNotActive
NamespaceNotFound
NotFound
PermissionDenied
QueryFailed
RetryReplication
ShardOwnershipLost
StickyWorkerUnavailable
TaskAlreadyStarted
Throttling (resources exhausted; triggers retry)
WorkflowExecutionAlreadyStarted
WorkflowNotReady

Our internal alerting system is based on our service level objectives (SLO) for all errors, not just errors that count against the SLA. When we receive an alert that an SLO is not being met, we page our on-call engineers, which often means that issues are resolved before they become noticeable.

Internally, our components are distributed across a minimum of three availability zones per region.

For current system status and information about recent incidents, see Temporal Status.