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Stop burning your error budget. Stop burning out your team.

Full SRE config as code — SLOs, error budgets, runbooks, on-call, and dashboards in one repo. Auto-remediates before alerts even fire.

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The problem

Your SLOs live in a Datadog dashboard. Your runbooks live in Confluence — stale since last quarter. Your alert thresholds are configured manually in Grafana, differently in every environment.

None of it is versioned. None of it is reviewable. None of it executes itself at 3am.

Burnless changes that.

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See it in action

burnless init — interactive wizard generates your sre.yaml in 60 seconds

burnless status — see your full SLO config at a glance

burnless toil report — convert manual toil to dollar cost for your manager

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Installation

macOS — Homebrew (recommended)

brew install --cask Custos-com/tap/burnless

macOS + Linux — one-liner

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Custos-com/Burnless/main/scripts/install.sh | sh

Go developers

go install github.com/Custos-com/Burnless/cmd/burnless@latest

Download binary directly

Download the latest binary for your platform from GitHub Releases.

Platform	File
macOS Apple Silicon	burnless_darwin_arm64.tar.gz
macOS Intel	burnless_darwin_amd64.tar.gz
Linux amd64	burnless_linux_amd64.tar.gz
Linux arm64	burnless_linux_arm64.tar.gz
Windows	burnless_windows_amd64.zip

Verify installation

burnless version
# burnless v0.3.0

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Quick start

# Create your sre.yaml interactively
burnless init

# Validate your config
burnless validate

# Preview what apply will create
burnless diff

# Check your SLO config summary
burnless status

# Log a toil event
burnless toil log --service payments-api --task manual-rollback --duration 45m --automatable

# Generate a cost report
burnless toil report --month 2026-07

# Export for your manager
burnless toil export --output toil.csv

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The sre.yaml

VS Code tip: Open any file named sre.yaml and get autocomplete automatically. Schema is published on SchemaStore.org.

service: payments-api
team: platform-engineering

slos:
  - name: availability
    target: 99.9
    window: 30d
    indicator:
      metric: http_requests_total
      good_filter: 'status!~"5.."'

error_budget:
  burn_rate_alerts:
    - severity: critical
      rate: 14.4
      window: 1h
      remediate: scale-up
    - severity: warning
      rate: 6
      window: 6h
      remediate: restart-pods

runbooks:
  scale-up:
    mode: auto
    steps:
      - kubectl scale deploy/payments-api --replicas=+2
  restart-pods:
    mode: semi-auto
    steps:
      - kubectl rollout restart deploy/payments-api

oncall:
  provider: pagerduty
  escalation_minutes: 10
  notify_slack: "#sre-incidents"

dashboards:
  provider: grafana
  auto_generate: true
  panels:
    - error_budget_remaining
    - burn_rate_1h
    - burn_rate_6h

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What's built today

Command	What it does
burnless init	Interactive wizard — generates a complete sre.yaml
burnless validate	Validates sre.yaml — exits 1 on failure, CI/CD safe
burnless diff	Previews what apply would create
burnless status	Displays SLO config, alerts, runbooks, on-call summary
burnless toil log	Logs a manual toil event
burnless toil report	Generates monthly cost report with automation priority
burnless toil export	Exports toil data as CSV or JSON

Coming soon (Phase 2)

• burnless apply — deploy SLO config to Prometheus + Grafana
• Burn rate agent — watches Prometheus every 60s, triggers runbooks automatically
• PagerDuty + Slack integrations
• Kubernetes operator + Helm chart

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Documentation

• Getting started
• sre.yaml reference
• CLI reference
• Integrations
• Security & Data Handling
• Contributing

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Community

• Discord
• Twitter / X
• GitHub Discussions

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License

Burnless uses a three-tier license strategy:

Layer	Files	License
SDK & Schema	pkg/ schema/ examples/	Apache 2.0 — maximum ecosystem reach
Core CLI & Agent	cmd/ internal/ deploy/	AGPLv3 — free forever including SSO
SaaS Dashboard	saas/ dashboard/	BSL 1.1 — free for dev, paid for production SaaS

TL;DR: If you're an SRE engineer using the CLI or self-hosting the agent — it's free, forever. If you want to offer a managed Burnless service — contact us.

See licenses/ for full license texts.