Comprehensive and Detailed Explanation From Exact Extract:
The SRE Book defines the Four Golden Signals of monitoring as Latency, Traffic, Errors, and Saturation. Specifically, it describes “Errors” as: “the rate of requests that fail, whether explicitly, implicitly, or by policy.” (SRE Book – Chapter: Monitoring Distributed Systems). This includes HTTP 5xx responses, timeouts, and requests served but not meeting success criteria.
This definition matches option B exactly.
Option A describes latency, not errors.
Option C describes traffic.
Option D describes saturation (resource usage).
Therefore, B is the correct and SRE-accurate description of the golden signal for errors.
[References:, Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, Chapter: “Monitoring Distributed Systems.”, The Site Reliability Workbook, sections on telemetry and alerting., , ]
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