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This blog post explains the importance of SRE observability for building reliable systems. Observability, unlike traditional monitoring, goes beyond just checking if something is wrong. It allows SREs to understand what's happening inside a system by looking at its external outputs like metrics, traces, and logs. This data is crucial for troubleshooting, maintaining, and developing scalable systems.

The blog post also highlights the benefits of SRE observability for businesses. By understanding user satisfaction through SLOs (Service Level Objectives), businesses can make better decisions about feature development and resource allocation. Additionally, observability tools can reduce the workload for engineers by automating tasks and providing better insights into system behavior. Overall, SRE observability is essential for ensuring system reliability and business success.

This blog post offers guidance on building and maintaining an SRE team. It emphasizes the importance of SRE in today's world and outlines seven key tips to achieve success. Here's a summary of those tips:

Start small and focus internally: Begin by assigning staff from existing departments to focus on maintaining service reliability.

Recruit the right people: Look for SRE professionals with problem-solving skills, automation expertise, and a commitment to continuous learning. They should also be excellent team players with a broad perspective. Consider using SRE tooling to improve team efficiency.

Define your SLOs: Establish clear and achievable performance indicators for your systems.

Establish a holistic incident management system: Implement a system for tracking on-call duties and streamlining the incident resolution process. SRE tooling can be helpful here.

Accept failure as inevitable: Recognize that failures are part of the development process. Focus on creating a minimum viable product and improving over time.

Conduct incident postmortems to learn from mistakes: Analyze incidents to identify root causes and develop solutions to prevent future occurrences.

Maintain a user-friendly incident management system: Choose an incident management system that is easy to use, fosters communication, and integrates with other relevant tools.

By following these steps and leveraging SRE tooling, you can establish a strong SRE team that keeps your systems reliable and your customers satisfied.

Learn how Prometheus Blackbox Exporter can monitor external systems with multiple protocols and custom endpoints to provide rich metrics, alerting, increased visibility, and faster issue resolution.

This blog unpacks everything you need to know about scaling an SRE team like the common indicators, and the steps that need to be taken for scaling your team. The blog uses the People-Process-Tools approach for an effective explanation.

On-call schedules ensure someone is always available to fix or escalate any issues that may arise, so things keep running smoothly. This blog post explores five common challenges organizations face when handling on-call schedules and discusses how to alleviate these challenges.

Ignoring anti-patterns can be far worse than settling for safe and rigid processes. This blog will explore anti-patterns in incident response and tell you why you need to unlearn those.

Observability is what defines a strong SRE team. In this blog, we have covered the importance of observability, and how SREs can leverage it to enhance their business.

As the complexity of a Kubernetes cluster grows, managing resources such as CPU and memory becomes more challenging. Efficient pod scheduling is critical to ensure optimal resource utilization and enable a stable and responsive environment for applications to run in. In this blog, we will delve into the intricacies of pod scheduling, including optimization of resource allocation and balancing workloads.

Webhooks and APIs are a developer-friendly approach to building modern-day web applications. In this blog, we explain what a webhook is, do a detailed webhooks vs. API comparison, and explain why we recommend developers use them with Squadcast.

Check out our open-source SLO tracker and set up your SLO's so that you can accurately track your error budgets. Automate your SRE, with Squadcast's SLO tool!