r/Observability
6k members
r/Observability is a subreddit with 6k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and self-promotion, and the community frequently discusses observability, monitoring, metrics, ai, and production.
Topics related to Observability and Monitoring in modern DevOps practices.
Popular Themes in r/Observability
#1
Solution Requests
: "Has anyone integrated LiteLLM with OpenTelemetry in production?"
13 posts
#2
Self-Promotion
: "We open sourced ForecastOps, feedback wanted from data engineers!"
12 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "I'm about to pioneer observability in my current company, give me some advice"
9 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "centralized dashboard setups are completely draining our team."
3 posts
#5
Ideas
: "A novel approach to automating GCP quota monitoring across projects."
1 post
#6
Money Talk
: "Is production observability worth paying for when your stack already feels overloaded?"
1 post
#7
Opportunities
: "Production Support Engineer with 6+ Years Experience Looking for New Opportunities"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/Observability
#1
Observability
: "What's working for production Observability in 2026?"
33 posts
#2
Monitoring
: "Monitoring the Claude execution layer with OpenTelemetry"
13 posts
#3
Metrics
: "Prometheus exporter vs OTLP for Temporal SDK Metrics in multi-worker deployments"
7 posts
#4
Ai
: "I use the new Grafana Ai Workspace feature every day"
5 posts
#5
Production
: "What's working for Production observability in 2026?"
4 posts
#6
Platform
3 posts
#7
Cost
: "I built an LLM Cost tracking middleware for Express. Things I learned shipping it solo."
3 posts
#8
Tracing
: "Anyone fixed trace continuity across Kafka consumers?"
3 posts
#9
Dashboard
: "Ollama Dashboard"
3 posts
#10
Opentelemetry
: "Best way to securely expose an Opentelemetry Collector endpoint publicly on Kubernetes without authentication?"
3 posts
Member Growth in r/Observability
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+4k members(199.6%)
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Last updated: August 15, 2026