r/Observability
6k members
r/Observability is a subreddit with 6k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, 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?"
18 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "I'm about to pioneer observability in my current company, give me some advice"
9 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "centralized dashboard setups are completely draining our team."
3 posts
#4
Ideas
: "A novel approach to automating GCP quota monitoring across projects."
3 posts
#5
Self-Promotion
: "We open sourced ForecastOps, feedback wanted from data engineers!"
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?"
32 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(220.9%)
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Last updated: August 1, 2026