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15 articles tagged SRE, newest first.
Measuring Toil Reduction in SRE and Operations
How to measure toil reduction in SRE and infrastructure operations with task frequency, manual minutes, exception handling, MTTR and SLO guardrails.
How to Use Error Budgets to Balance Releases and Reliability Work
Use SLO error budgets as a release gate: 30-day rolling windows, fast and slow burn alerts, freeze thresholds, and how to prioritize reliability work.
How Automation Blocks Dangerous Production Commands
How blacklists, approved script versions, scoped permissions, canary runs, rollback and two-person approval stop automation running dangerous commands.
Automatic Incident Postmortems from Alarms and Work Orders
Incident postmortems can be generated automatically when the incident-response system captures the evidence while the incident is happening.
MTTD, MTTR, SLOs and Error Budgets for AI Infrastructure
How MTTD, MTTR, SLOs, error budgets and burn rate apply to AI inference, training and infrastructure, with formulas, example targets and dashboard metrics.
How IT Teams Can Measure Whether Automated Remediation Is Working
Metrics that show whether automated remediation improves IT operations: MTTR, MTTD, toil, rollback and recurrence, SLOs, and L1 to L3 risk tiers.
If New Relic Is Fading, Datadog Isn't Automatically the Happy Ending
As teams rethink older observability vendors like New Relic, buyers are questioning Datadog and the premium platform model on cost, trust and fatigue.
Datadog Still Shines in an Outage, So Why Are Buyers Torn?
Recent debate around Datadog shows a familiar split: teams trust it in incidents, but many no longer trust how much pain comes with keeping that trust.
Datadog Fatigue: Why Teams Sound One Renewal Away From Snapping
Datadog users sound worn out by pricing, packaging and renewal fights, even when they like the product. Why that fatigue matters for the vendor.
Everyone Wants Observability But Nobody Knows Where to Start
Teams buy observability tools before learning the concept. The theory, a hands-on learning path with OpenTelemetry, and how it differs from monitoring.
How One Team Cut Prometheus Memory From 60GB to 20GB
A real case study on cutting Prometheus memory usage from 60GB to 20GB by identifying toxic labels and reclaiming scrape reliability.
Real Stories from Kubernetes Admins Keeping Production Stable
Kubernetes admins share war stories: SELinux mandates from the CEO, vendor add-ons, Vault and ESO without docs, and homelab crash loops.
Opsgenie Alternatives: What DevOps Teams Switch To
Why DevOps teams are leaving Opsgenie and where they go: Incident.io, Datadog On-Call, FireHydrant, Rootly, JSM Alerts and smaller alerting tools.
When GitOps Meets Emergency Fixes: ArgoCD Operational Lessons
GitOps can be clean in theory but difficult under production pressure. A practical look at ArgoCD emergency-fix workflows and operational tradeoffs.
Editing in Prod: A Love Letter to SREs Who Broke Glass
GitOps promises pristine, repeatable deployments until your cluster is on fire at 2AM. Why kubectl edit in prod isn't always a sin.