How can Site Reliability Guardian enhance application performance?

Site Reliability Guardian enhances application performance primarily by blocking bad deployments and enforcing reliability thresholds. This mechanism ensures that only reliable and stable application versions are rolled out to production, which prevents potential outages and decreases the likelihood of performance degradation. By maintaining stringent checks on the reliability of deployments, it helps sustain a higher level of application performance for users.

The approach of enforcing reliability thresholds means that specific metrics—such as latency, error rates, and uptime—must meet predetermined standards before new changes are allowed into a live environment. This proactive measure minimizes risks associated with untested or inadequately tested code, thereby promoting overall system stability and performance.

While other choices may contribute to performance in various ways, they do not provide the same direct mechanism for maintaining application performance as blocking bad deployments does. For instance, automatic resource allocation can help in some situations but may not prevent unreliable code from affecting performance. Regular performance audits are essential for identifying issues but do not actively prevent problems at deployment time. User training ensures best practices among teams but does not directly intervene in the operational aspect of application deployment and reliability management.