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name: Freshness Latency SLOs
description: See the main Data Freshness and Latency skill for comprehensive coverage of freshness monitoring and SLO tracking.
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# Freshness Latency SLOs

This skill is covered in detail in the main **Data Freshness and Latency** skill.

Please refer to: `43-data-reliability/freshness-latency/SKILL.md`

That skill covers:
- Freshness vs latency distinction
- Freshness requirements by use case
- Measuring data freshness (SQL, Python, dbt)
- Latency measurement (end-to-end, per-stage, P50/P95/P99)
- Freshness monitoring and alerting
- Watermark tracking for streaming data
- Improving freshness (CDC, incremental updates, parallel processing)
- Trade-offs (freshness vs cost/completeness/accuracy)
- Freshness SLAs and SLOs
- SLO compliance measurement
- Tools (Monte Carlo, Grafana, dbt freshness tests)
- Handling stale data
- Real freshness issues and solutions

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## Related Skills
- `43-data-reliability/freshness-latency` (Main skill)
- `43-data-reliability/data-quality-monitoring`
- `43-data-reliability/data-contracts`