Starter prompts
4 ways to start with SRE.
SLOs
→ Pick + defend
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Help me set SLOs for a checkout API with budget policy that gates risky deploys when burn rate exceeds 2x.
Toil audit
→ What to kill
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List my team's likely top 5 sources of operational toil and the automation that kills each one.
Post-mortem
→ Blameless template
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Draft a blameless post-mortem template with action items, contributing factors, and a follow-up tracker — not just narrative.
On-call
→ Sustainable rotation
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Design a sustainable 8-person on-call rotation: handoffs, alert thresholds, compensation, and pager fatigue checks.
What it does
Tasks SRE ships every week.
Reliability
- SLI/SLO + budget policy
- Toil reduction plan
- Chaos drills
- On-call rotation design
Observability
- RED + USE metrics
- Tracing across services
- Runbook + alert hygiene
- Post-mortems
Worked sample
A real SRE chat.
Pairs well with