r/sre
56k members
r/sre is a subreddit with 56k members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses sre, looking for job, devops, incident, and sre position.
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Popular Themes in r/sre
#1
Pain & Anger
: "Today was my last working day and I uninstalled pagerduty. I am happy."
8 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "After a production incident is resolved — what actually happens next at your company?"
8 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "Best Datadog Alternative for a Growing Startup?"
5 posts
Popular Topics in r/sre
#1
Sre
: "Sre Maturity Framework: The 5 phases every team goes through — and where most get stuck"
27 posts
#2
Looking For Job
9 posts
#3
Devops
: "Built a curated list of official Devops / Cloud / SRE MCP servers and agent skills"
8 posts
#4
Incident
7 posts
#5
Sre Position
4 posts
#6
Interview
4 posts
#7
Ai
: "Every Ai SRE tool on my feed just rAised money.. what do we think this is actually signaling"
4 posts
#8
Terraform
: "We are looking for straightforward takes on Terraform Cloud alternatives that have drift detection and governance built in"
4 posts
#9
Sre Tools
3 posts
#10
Monitoring
: "Datadog vs Grafana/Zabbix/Nagios — what are you all using for infra Monitoring right now?"
3 posts
Flair Used in r/sre
#1
DISCUSSION
: "Uber left PagerDuty after using it for 12 years."
44 posts
#2
ASK SRE
: "We had a 40 minute outage and nothing alerted because traffic dropped 95%"
17 posts
#3
HELP
: "I feel I'm the most dumbest person in the office"
12 posts
#4
BLOG
: "Elasticsearch used 19 GB RAM and 96% CPU ingesting Kubernetes logs, OpenObserve used 1.9 GB and 15% (1.1TB, same hardware, repo included)"
10 posts
#5
CAREER
: "Today was my last working day and I uninstalled pagerduty. I am happy."
7 posts
#6
HIRING
: "A24 Films has a new tech startup and we're hiring a SRE!"
2 posts
#7
HORROR STORY
: "tired of being an overpaid babysitter for LLM-generated infra code"
1 post
#8
POSTMORTEM
: "We presented scaling benchmarks as actual performance metrics and now our infrastructure is collapsing under real load"
1 post
Member Growth in r/sre
Yearly
+17k members(45.0%)
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Last updated: August 5, 2026