r/sre
58k members
r/sre is a subreddit with 58k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses sre, looking for job, sre position, prod, and sre tools.
everything site reliability engineering
Popular Themes in r/sre
#1
Advice Requests
: "Can automated root cause analysis reliably identify production issues?"
9 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Moving from Datadog to Opensource Observability ecosystem"
6 posts
#3
Ideas
: "FOSS Friday: Share Your SRE-Related Open-Source Project"
2 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "Accidentally spammed our entire exec team including CEO with prod alerts for an hour - lessons learned"
1 post
#5
Opportunities
: "Looking for remote opps | AiOps"
1 post
#6
Self-Promotion
: "My observability tool has 0 customers so I created a banking app to put it to test"
1 post
#7
News
: "Salesforce's trust log for Wednesday is way more interesting than the irony of them being down during Dreamforce. It shows three root cause theories in 68 minutes and an impact radius revised downward six hours in."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/sre
#1
Sre
: "Observabilty -> Sre or Sre->Observabilty"
13 posts
#2
Looking For Job
9 posts
#3
Sre Position
4 posts
#4
Prod
: "Can automated root cause analysis reliably identify Production issues?"
4 posts
#5
Sre Tools
3 posts
#6
Devops
2 posts
#7
Incident Management
2 posts
#8
Site Reliability Engineer
2 posts
#9
On Call
2 posts
#10
Incident Response
2 posts
Flair Used in r/sre
#1
HELP
: "Resume Roast"
16 posts
#2
DISCUSSION
: "The guy who knew why is gone, what now?"
12 posts
#3
ASK SRE
: "Our checkout p95 was 11.8 seconds and 8.9 of it was retries"
7 posts
#4
BLOG
: "AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems"
5 posts
#5
CAREER
: "SRE Job Outlook (1-3 years)"
4 posts
Member Growth in r/sre
Yearly
+17k members(40.1%)
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Last updated: October 1, 2026