r/sre
54k members
r/sre is a subreddit with 54k members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses sre, ai, incident, devops, and production.
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Popular Themes in r/sre
#1
Pain & Anger
: "SRE interviews are getting out of hand and I am tired"
12 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Datadog vs Grafana/Zabbix/Nagios — what are you all using for infra monitoring right now?"
10 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "ex Staff SRE at FAANG, got bored, wondering what’s next"
9 posts
#4
Ideas
: "tools i wish we had before our on-call got messy"
1 post
#5
Opportunities
: "Laid-Off Tech Workers Are Organizing. Come Join Our Mass Call"
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
: "Read the new 'AI for Sre' chapter from the Sre Book 2nd Edition. Here's what's actually in it."
119 posts
#2
Ai
: "Read the new 'Ai for SRE' chapter from the SRE Book 2nd Edition. Here's what's actually in it."
38 posts
#3
Incident
: "AI agent failures feel like Incidents with no repro steps... how are ppl debugging them?"
20 posts
#4
Devops
: "Need advice: I am frustrated with Devops capacity at Series B"
17 posts
#5
Production
: "Notes from AI SRE summit"
15 posts
#6
Observability
: "Observability for AI tooling: Grafana dashboard for Claude Code's OpenTelemetry metrics on Prometheus"
14 posts
#7
Monitoring
: "What 5 years of on-call taught me about the difference between good and bad Monitoring setups"
13 posts
#8
Incident Response
: "Dungeons & dragons for Incident Response"
11 posts
#9
Engineering
10 posts
#10
Looking For Job
9 posts
Flair Used in r/sre
#1
DISCUSSION
: "SRE interviews are getting out of hand and I am tired"
41 posts
#2
ASK SRE
: "We had a 40 minute outage and nothing alerted because traffic dropped 95%"
14 posts
#3
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)"
13 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
HORROR STORY
: "A 2-character mistake just gave us a 3 AM heart attack on GCP"
3 posts
#8
HIRING
: "A24 Films has a new tech startup and we're hiring a SRE!"
2 posts
#9
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(45.5%)
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Last updated: June 30, 2026