The service mesh era: Using Istio and Stackdriver to build an SRE service

Istio’s Stackdriver integration allows you to quickly navigate between monitoring dashboards, request traces, and application logs. Stackdriver Logging’s integration comes full circle with Stackdriver Monitoring by giving you the ability to create metrics based on structured log messages. Coming soon: SLOs and service monitoring using Stackdriver

So far we’ve reviewed the various mechanisms Stackdriver provides to assess your application’s SLIs; and now available for early access, Stackdriver will provide native support for setting SLOs against your specific service metrics.

Source: cloud.google.com