Glossary

Service level agreement (SLA)

Updated November 10, 2026

Definition

Service level agreement: A written commitment to a customer about support performance, usually first response time and sometimes resolution time, with the hours, channels and priorities it covers.

Also called SLA, support SLA.

A useful support SLA states the target (for example, a first response within one hour), the hours it applies to and their time zone, the channels it covers, and how priority changes the target. Many teams set different SLAs per plan or account tier.

An SLA is external; an internal target is usually tighter so the team has headroom. Measure attainment as the share of requests that met the target. In Weft, SLAs and escalations are part of the Growth plan.

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