r/sre
52k members
r/sre is a subreddit with 52k members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and advice 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
Pain & Anger
: "Our COO's wife unleashed Claude on our AWS and caused a sev1"
14 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "What 5 years of on-call taught me about the difference between good and bad monitoring setups"
13 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "Datadog vs Grafana/Zabbix/Nagios — what are you all using for infra monitoring right now?"
11 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"
1 post
#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"
107 posts
#2
Ai
: "Amazon's Ai coding outages are a preview of what's coming for most SRE teams"
34 posts
#3
Monitoring
: "What 5 years of on-call taught me about the difference between good and bad Monitoring setups"
17 posts
#4
Devops
: "[Hiring] [Hybrid] - Senior Devops / SRE – Incentives & Customer Engagement+ | Tokyo, Japan"
16 posts
#5
Observability
: "Observability for AI tooling: Grafana dashboard for Claude Code's OpenTelemetry metrics on Prometheus"
15 posts
#6
Production
: "How attached do you feel to Production"
13 posts
#7
Incident
: "Incident with multiple GitHub services"
12 posts
#8
Reliability
: "does Reliability means no innovation?"
9 posts
#9
Incident Response
: "Starting for Small team (15–20 engineers) looking for a Slack native oncall / incident tool"
8 posts
#10
Incident Management
6 posts
Products Discussed in r/sre
Scheduling Tool
7 reviews
#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"
40 posts
#2
ASK SRE
: "We had a 40 minute outage and nothing alerted because traffic dropped 95%"
16 posts
#3
BLOG
: "How Complex SRE Systems Fail: 18 Lessons for the On-Call Engineer"
12 posts
#4
HELP
: "I feel I'm the most dumbest person in the office"
11 posts
#5
CAREER
: "Today was my last working day and I uninstalled pagerduty. I am happy."
10 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(43.8%)
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Last updated: June 4, 2026