7 things I’ve learnt while shadowing an SRE

This post details learnings from shadowing an SRE, focusing on incident management, resource usage monitoring (Grafana, Kibana), resource allocation tradeoffs (CPU for PostgreSQL vs. Redis), SRE on-call veto power during incidents, interconnectedness of systems requiring debugging and log tracking, primary incident reporting sources (Prometheus alerting), and the SRE role in supporting and developing infrastructure beyond incident response. It highlights the importance of observability tools and understanding system behavior for effective incident management and infrastructure development.