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title: SRE Methodology — Google SRE Book & Workbook
kind: index
domain: methodology
fetched_at: 2026-05-18
tags: [index, sre, methodology, slo, monitoring, incident-response]
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> [!info] Reading-list index · canonical sources
> Curated entry points into the Google SRE Book (2016) and SRE Workbook (2018).
> Full text not embedded (CC-BY-NC-ND restricts derivatives) — follow the link
> to read on sre.google. These chapters are the canonical reference the AIOps
> assistant cites for SLO / golden-signal / postmortem / incident-response
> questions.

# Google SRE Book — full chapter list

- [Chapter 1 — Introduction](https://sre.google/sre-book/introduction/)
- [Chapter 2 — The Production Environment at Google](https://sre.google/sre-book/production-environment/)
- [Chapter 3 — Embracing Risk](https://sre.google/sre-book/embracing-risk/)
- [Chapter 4 — Service Level Objectives](https://sre.google/sre-book/service-level-objectives/)
- [Chapter 5 — Eliminating Toil](https://sre.google/sre-book/eliminating-toil/)
- [Chapter 6 — Monitoring Distributed Systems (Golden Signals)](https://sre.google/sre-book/monitoring-distributed-systems/)
- [Chapter 7 — The Evolution of Automation at Google](https://sre.google/sre-book/automation-at-google/)
- [Chapter 8 — Release Engineering](https://sre.google/sre-book/release-engineering/)
- [Chapter 9 — Simplicity](https://sre.google/sre-book/simplicity/)
- [Chapter 10 — Practical Alerting](https://sre.google/sre-book/practical-alerting/)
- [Chapter 11 — Being On-Call](https://sre.google/sre-book/being-on-call/)
- [Chapter 12 — Effective Troubleshooting](https://sre.google/sre-book/effective-troubleshooting/)
- [Chapter 13 — Emergency Response](https://sre.google/sre-book/emergency-response/)
- [Chapter 14 — Managing Incidents](https://sre.google/sre-book/managing-incidents/)
- [Chapter 15 — Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure](https://sre.google/sre-book/postmortem-culture/)
- [Chapter 16 — Tracking Outages](https://sre.google/sre-book/tracking-outages/)
- [Chapter 17 — Testing for Reliability](https://sre.google/sre-book/testing-reliability/)
- [Chapter 18 — Software Engineering in SRE](https://sre.google/sre-book/software-engineering-in-sre/)
- [Chapter 19 — Load Balancing at the Frontend](https://sre.google/sre-book/load-balancing-frontend/)
- [Chapter 20 — Load Balancing in the Datacenter](https://sre.google/sre-book/load-balancing-datacenter/)
- [Chapter 21 — Handling Overload](https://sre.google/sre-book/handling-overload/)
- [Chapter 22 — Addressing Cascading Failures](https://sre.google/sre-book/addressing-cascading-failures/)
- [Chapter 23 — Managing Critical State: Distributed Consensus](https://sre.google/sre-book/managing-critical-state/)
- [Chapter 24 — Distributed Periodic Scheduling with Cron](https://sre.google/sre-book/distributed-periodic-scheduling/)
- [Chapter 25 — Data Processing Pipelines](https://sre.google/sre-book/data-processing-pipelines/)
- [Chapter 26 — Data Integrity: What You Read Is What You Wrote](https://sre.google/sre-book/data-integrity/)
- [Chapter 27 — Reliable Product Launches at Scale](https://sre.google/sre-book/reliable-product-launches/)
- [Chapter 28 — Accelerating SREs to On-Call and Beyond](https://sre.google/sre-book/accelerating-sre-on-call/)
- [Chapter 29 — Dealing with Interrupts](https://sre.google/sre-book/dealing-with-interrupts/)
- [Chapter 30 — Embedding an SRE to Recover from Operational Overload](https://sre.google/sre-book/operational-overload/)
- [Chapter 31 — Communication and Collaboration in SRE](https://sre.google/sre-book/communication-and-collaboration/)
- [Chapter 32 — The Evolving SRE Engagement Model](https://sre.google/sre-book/evolving-sre-engagement-model/)
- [Chapter 33 — Lessons Learned from Other Industries](https://sre.google/sre-book/lessons-learned/)
- [Appendix A — Availability Table](https://sre.google/sre-book/availability-table/)
- [Appendix B — Best Practices for Production Services](https://sre.google/sre-book/service-best-practices/)
- [Appendix C — Example Incident State Document](https://sre.google/sre-book/incident-document/)
- [Appendix D — Example Postmortem](https://sre.google/sre-book/example-postmortem/)
- [Appendix E — Launch Coordination Checklist](https://sre.google/sre-book/launch-checklist/)
- [Appendix F — Example Production Meeting Minutes](https://sre.google/sre-book/production-meeting/)

# Google SRE Workbook — practical companion

- [Chapter 1 — How SRE Relates to DevOps](https://sre.google/workbook/how-sre-relates/)
- [Chapter 2 — Implementing SLOs](https://sre.google/workbook/implementing-slos/)
- [Chapter 3 — SLO Engineering Case Studies](https://sre.google/workbook/slo-engineering-case-studies/)
- [Chapter 4 — Monitoring](https://sre.google/workbook/monitoring/)
- [Chapter 5 — Alerting on SLOs](https://sre.google/workbook/alerting-on-slos/)
- [Chapter 6 — Eliminating Toil](https://sre.google/workbook/eliminating-toil/)
- [Chapter 7 — Simplicity](https://sre.google/workbook/simplicity/)
- [Chapter 8 — On-Call](https://sre.google/workbook/on-call/)
- [Chapter 9 — Incident Response](https://sre.google/workbook/incident-response/)
- [Chapter 10 — Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure](https://sre.google/workbook/postmortem-culture/)
- [Chapter 11 — Managing Load](https://sre.google/workbook/managing-load/)
- [Chapter 12 — Introducing Non-Abstract Large System Design](https://sre.google/workbook/non-abstract-design/)
- [Chapter 13 — Data Processing Pipelines](https://sre.google/workbook/data-processing/)
- [Chapter 14 — Configuration Design and Best Practices](https://sre.google/workbook/configuration-design/)
- [Chapter 15 — Configuration Specifics](https://sre.google/workbook/configuration-specifics/)
- [Chapter 16 — Canarying Releases](https://sre.google/workbook/canarying-releases/)
- [Chapter 17 — Identifying and Recovering from Overload](https://sre.google/workbook/overload/)
- [Chapter 18 — SRE Engagement Model](https://sre.google/workbook/engagement-model/)
- [Chapter 19 — SRE: Reaching Beyond Your Walls](https://sre.google/workbook/reaching-beyond/)
- [Chapter 20 — SRE Team Lifecycles](https://sre.google/workbook/team-lifecycles/)
- [Chapter 21 — Organizational Change Management in SRE](https://sre.google/workbook/organizational-change/)
- [Appendix A — Example SLO Document](https://sre.google/workbook/slo-document/)
- [Appendix B — Example Error Budget Policy](https://sre.google/workbook/error-budget-policy/)
- [Appendix C — Results of Postmortem Analysis](https://sre.google/workbook/postmortem-analysis/)
