Awesome Site Reliability Engineering

What it is

Awesome SRE is a curated list on GitHub of resources about site reliability and production engineering. It follows the "awesome list" format: a single README grouped into sections, each with links and a one-line note. With over 13,000 GitHub stars it is one of the best known SRE reading lists.

What the list covers

The sections are Culture, Education, Books, Hiring, Reliability, Monitoring, Observability and Alerting, On-Call, Post-Mortem, Capacity Planning, Service Level Agreement, Performance, Programming, miscellaneous articles, real-time messaging, blogs, newsletters, conferences and meetups, podcasts, and SRE tools. The links lean towards long-lived material: conference talks, engineering blog posts from large companies, well known postmortems, and the classic books.

Is it still maintained?

Be clear about this before you rely on it. As of September 2026 the most recent commit to the repository is from October 2022. The list is not archived, but it has not been updated in almost four years. That means:

• The foundational reading (culture, postmortems, on-call, capacity planning, the SRE books) is still worth your time, because those ideas have not changed.
• Some links will have moved or died, and tool recommendations will be out of date.
• Newer topics that platform teams care about now, such as internal developer portals, GitOps and OpenTelemetry, are missing or thin.

How to use it well

Treat it as a map of the field's classic material. Pick one section that matches what you are working on, for example Post-Mortem before you write your first incident review, read two or three links properly, and move on. For current tools, prefer the official documentation of the project itself and the SRE and platform engineering roadmap on Sefism.

Prerequisites and time

None. It is a reading list, so the time cost is whatever you choose to read. Skimming the whole README takes half an hour; working through one section properly takes an evening or two.

Free or paid?

The list is free. Nearly everything it links to is free as well, apart from some of the books.

Common questions

Is there a more current list? Several forks and newer lists exist, but check their commit history the same way before trusting them.

Where should I start in it? Culture and Post-Mortem, then On-Call and Monitoring. They explain why SRE works the way it does.

Best for: engineers new to SRE who want a broad view of the classic reading, and anyone looking for well known postmortems and talks to study.