r/sre

52k members
r/sre is a subreddit with 52k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses sre, ai, monitoring, devops, and observability, and they frequently recommend/review scheduling tool.
everything site reliability engineering

Popular Themes in r/sre

#1
Advice Requests
: "What 5 years of on-call taught me about the difference between good and bad monitoring setups"
11 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Datadog vs Grafana/Zabbix/Nagios — what are you all using for infra monitoring right now?"
10 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Our COO's wife unleashed Claude on our AWS and caused a sev1"
10 posts
#4
Ideas
: "I fetched 50k logs from my Loki pipeline post deployment, clustered them and this is the result"
2 posts
#5
Opportunities
: "[Hiring] [Hybrid] Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Global Product Team) | Tokyo, Japan"
2 posts
#6
News
: "ibm cloud services impacted after datacenter fire near amsterdam. status page showed no major issues during the outage."
1 post

Popular Topics in r/sre

#1

Sre

: "Sre interviews are getting out of hand and I am tired"
105 posts
#2

Ai

: "Amazon's Ai coding outages are a preview of what's coming for most SRE teams"
35 posts
#3

Monitoring

: "What 5 years of on-call taught me about the difference between good and bad Monitoring setups"
18 posts
#4

Devops

: "Need advice: I am frustrated with Devops capacity at Series B"
17 posts
#5

Observability

: "Observability for AI tooling: Grafana dashboard for Claude Code's OpenTelemetry metrics on Prometheus"
16 posts
#6

Production

: "Notes from AI SRE summit"
13 posts
#7

Incident

: "Incident with multiple GitHub services"
12 posts
#8

Looking For Job

9 posts
#9

Incident Response

: "What metrics actually matter? Lessons shared after a recent 47-minute outage"
9 posts
#10

Incident Management

: "Ehh, put up a maintenance page and snooze the alert until tomorrow"
8 posts

Products Discussed in r/sre

#1
Rootly
4.5 from 2 reviews
#2
PagerDuty
4.5 from 2 reviews
#3
SIGNL4
4.0 from 1 review

Flair Used in r/sre

#1
DISCUSSION
: "SRE interviews are getting out of hand and I am tired"
36 posts
#2
ASK SRE
: "We had a 40 minute outage and nothing alerted because traffic dropped 95%"
15 posts
#3
BLOG
: "The future of software engineering is SRE"
12 posts
#4
HELP
: "I feel I'm the most dumbest person in the office"
12 posts
#5
CAREER
: "Today was my last working day and I uninstalled pagerduty. I am happy."
11 posts
#6
HUMOR
: "Ehh, put up a maintenance page and snooze the alert until tomorrow"
6 posts
#7
HIRING
: "A24 Films has a new tech startup and we're hiring a SRE!"
3 posts
#8
HORROR STORY
: "A 2-character mistake just gave us a 3 AM heart attack on GCP"
2 posts
#9
POSTMORTEM
: "We presented scaling benchmarks as actual performance metrics and now our infrastructure is collapsing under real load"
1 post

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Yearly
+16k members(44.0%)

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Last updated: June 11, 2026