There’s a lot of anxiety right now about AI taking jobs. But SREs have been automating themselves out of their own jobs for decades — the reward for good work, inevitably, is yet more work.
My latest example: Over my career, I’ve personally performed a few thousand code reviews of PromQL (neé Borgmon). Any issues I catch can be distilled down into a handful of categories, none of which I consider exotic.
o11y-analysis-tools is a collection of static analysis and testing tools for PromQL-compatible monitoring stacks — formatters, label enforcement, test generation, Alertmanager testing, and alert hygiene analysis. Full details, interactive and CI pipeline usage, and install options are in the README.
The part I’m most excited about: each tool also ships as an installable Agent Skill, so an LLM coding agent can run the same checks I used to run by eye, before a human reviewer ever sees the diff. Or there’s the Agent definition that combines them all together, named after my mentor in this area, the late Cody Smith.
If you’ve ever guessed/sparred with for: duration, forgotten a job label, or reviewed a
PromQL diff that made you pause — I built this for you, for past-me, and ideally for future
me, to add more novelty into my review queue.