r/Monitoring is a subreddit with 4k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses monitoring, observability, network, prometheus, and open source, and they frequently recommend/review monitoring tool.
For anyone building, running, or cursing at their monitoring stack. APM, infrastructure, network, synthetic, RUM, observability platforms, alerting, on-call pain, tool comparisons, architecture questions, dashboards, log management, and figuring out why something woke you up at 3am.
Popular Themes in r/Monitoring
#1
Solution Requests
: "Looking for a Monitoring Solution for IoT Wildlife Tracking Devices"
35 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "How to choose the best EC2 type for your application and how to monitor them?"
19 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "I've made patchmon.net - a Linux Patch monitoring software (opensource)"
4 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "In practice, Grafana has not been great at backward compatibility"
2 posts
#5
News
: "Introducing Prometheus Agent Mode, an Efficient and Cloud-Native Way for Metric Forwarding"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/Monitoring
#1
Monitoring
: "What are your solutions for simple Monitoring? "
163 posts
#2
Observability
: "Observability vs Monitoring"
15 posts
#3
Network
: "Why are most enterprise Network tools windows only ?"
13 posts
#4
Prometheus
: "New book around monitoring using the Prometheus ecosystem"
12 posts
#5
Open Source
: "CLI tool to simplify Open Source monitoring agent installation"
10 posts
#6
Openitcockpit
: "Openitcockpit version 3.7.2 released"
9 posts
#7
Grafana
: "In practice, Grafana has not been great at backward compatibility"
9 posts
#8
Alerting
: "Alerting on top of SLOs with slo-exporter"
9 posts
#9
Security
8 posts
#10
Ai
7 posts
Products Discussed in r/Monitoring
Monitoring Tool
2 reviews
#1
Prometheus
5.0★ from 1 review
#2
Netdata
5.0★ from 1 review
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Yearly
+2k members(141.6%)
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Last updated: June 9, 2026