As systems become more distributed and AI-driven, traditional uptime metrics are no longer enough. The 2026 SRE Report shows how reliability is shifting toward user experience, speed, and business impact, and how AI is reshaping monitoring, incident response, and the role of SRE and DevOps leaders.
Why Your SLO Dashboard is Lying: Moving Beyond Vanity Metrics in Production
Discover how redefining service level objectives (SLOs) around business impact — not vanity uptime metrics — reduced incidents by 75% and saved $2.3M in lost revenue.
SREs Say There’s Plenty of Room to Improve Incident Management
A global survey of site reliability engineers (SREs) found diagnosing issues is the most difficult aspect of incident management.
Unlocking Accountability: How Real-Time App Monitoring Empowers Engineering Teams
Real-time app monitoring is about fundamentally shifting your mindset toward a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
Managing Risk
We have built some beautiful toolchains that crank out a finished product on the fly without needing anything close to the level of intervention that was historically required. The most advanced organizations on an automation journey could change a line of code and then wait for the new version to hit production without doing a […]
Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
In this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing.
How to Improve Your Uptime Strategy
Outages happen, it’s inevitable. But, unplanned downtime often comes with substantial costs—not only in terms of recovery and revenue loss, but also customer happiness, brand reputation and employee morale. While there is no foolproof way for companies to avoid outages, there are steps they can take to help improve uptime. Development teams should determine what […]
What It Really Takes to Build a Reliable App
What makes an app reliable? If you ask most IT professionals that question, their minds immediately go to uptime. That’s not surprising; after all, it’s fashionable for software and infrastructure vendors these days to boast about how many nines of uptime they guarantee. To be sure, uptime is one component of delivering a reliable application […]
The 3 Secrets to Overcoming the Agility-Stability Paradox
Regardless of whether an organization subscribes to a bimodal IT approach, one thing is clear: It’s more important, and more difficult, than ever to fight the agility-stability paradox. Today’s businesses must build on a delicate balance of being compliant, plan-driven and keeping the lights on while also seeking ways to become more fluid and agile […]
System Redundancy at the Distributed Cafe
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