awesome-sre

This repository addresses the challenge of navigating the vast and fragmented landscape of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) knowledge by providing a curated list of resources spanning culture, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and more. Unlike generic documentation or scattered blog posts, it aggregates authoritative talks, articles, books, and tools into a single, organised reference, helping senior engineers and tech leads quickly find relevant material for building or refining their SRE practices. The collection is especially useful for teams establishing or maturing their SRE functions, offering a broad but focused perspective rooted in industry-recognised sources like Google and Facebook. With over 13,000 stars and recent commits, it shows sustained community interest but lacks significant growth signals, indicating a stable but niche utility. It is not suitable for teams seeking a ready-to-use software solution or automated tooling, as it is purely a curated list rather than an implementation or framework.

Opt for this curated resource list when you need a comprehensive starting point to educate your team on SRE concepts and best practices without sifting through unrelated content. If you require operational software or monitoring platforms instead, consider alternatives like Prometheus or Grafana for tooling, or the SRE books by Google for focused reading.

Typically adopted by engineering teams building or scaling services with reliability and availability SLAs, especially those transitioning from traditional operations to SRE models. It suits teams responsible for incident management, capacity planning, and on-call rotations who need a consolidated knowledge base rather than tooling.

Latest commit: 2025-08-28. Activity data is based on daily RepoPi snapshots of the GitHub repository.