r/Observability
5k members
r/Observability is a subreddit with 5k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses observability, monitoring, opentelemetry, ai, and metrics.
Topics related to Observability and Monitoring in modern DevOps practices.
Popular Themes in r/Observability
#1
Solution Requests
: "ELK Alternative: With Distributed tracing using OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry & Jaeger"
22 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "resources for learning observability?"
18 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Anyone else tired of jumping between monitoring tools?"
6 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "We built GreptimeDB, An Open Source Database for Unified Metrics and Logs"
6 posts
#5
Ideas
: "Automating root cause analysis for AI agent failures"
4 posts
#6
Money Talk
: "Is production observability worth paying for when your stack already feels overloaded?"
2 posts
#7
Opportunities
: "A VC walks into an observability conference… (Observability Summit MSP, through Friday) VC (and ex-founder) looking to meet founders"
1 post
#8
News
: "Why customer-level AI cost tracking matters more than total monthly spend"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/Observability
#1
Observability
: "Observability tool Dash0 raises $110M at $1B valuation"
203 posts
#2
Monitoring
: "How are you Monitoring calls to third-party APIs?"
39 posts
#3
Opentelemetry
: "ELK Alternative: With Distributed tracing using OpenSearch, Opentelemetry & Jaeger"
38 posts
#4
Ai
: "Automating root cause analysis for Ai agent fAilures"
37 posts
#5
Metrics
: "I built a public metric-registry to help search and know details about Metrics from various tools and platforms"
29 posts
#6
Logging
: "An opinionated Logging setup in Go"
21 posts
#7
Tools
: "Anyone else tired of jumping between monitoring Tools?"
14 posts
#8
Llm
: "Observing Llm Applications with OpenTelemetry"
12 posts
#9
Logs
: "Built Logslash — a Rust pre-ingestion log firewall to reduce observability costs"
10 posts
#10
Cost
: "Instructions on how to enable Claude Code OTel Observability for tokens, Cost, prs and commits"
9 posts
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+4k members(292.1%)
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Last updated: June 15, 2026