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, metrics, production, and ai.
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
Advice Requests
: "I'm about to pioneer observability in my current company, give me some advice"
6 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "We open sourced ForecastOps, feedback wanted from data engineers!"
5 posts
#4
Ideas
: "A novel approach to automating GCP quota monitoring across projects."
3 posts
#5
Pain & Anger
: "centralized dashboard setups are completely draining our team."
2 posts
#6
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?"
24 posts
#2
Monitoring
: "Monitoring the Claude execution layer with OpenTelemetry"
9 posts
#3
Metrics
: "Prometheus exporter vs OTLP for Temporal SDK Metrics in multi-worker deployments"
7 posts
#4
Production
: "What's working for Production observability in 2026?"
4 posts
#5
Ai
: "The hard part of autonomous SRE was never the Ai. It's how much you trust it."
3 posts
#6
Platform
: "Vexor – a self-hosted infrastructure monitoring Platform (hosts, services, SLA reports, alerting) I built as an AI-assisted side project"
3 posts
#7
Cost
: "I built an LLM Cost tracking middleware for Express. Things I learned shipping it solo."
3 posts
#8
Dashboard
: "Ollama Dashboard"
3 posts
#9
Prometheus
: "Anyone moved from Prometheus > Clickhouse?"
3 posts
#10
Open Source
: "We Open Sourced ForecastOps, feedback wanted from data engineers!"
2 posts
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+4k members(232.1%)
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Last updated: July 7, 2026