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Proactive reliability optimization owns the work that happens when nothing is on fire: reading what keeps going wrong and turning it into a specific improvement. It triages where the error budget is going and proposes the fix for a failure that has now happened often enough to be a pattern. This page covers the outcome the module owns, the two workflows inside it, and what it needs connected.

What this module owns

Incident response competes on speed of resolution. This module changes the axis to elimination — the recurring cause that is handled well every time and never removed. Nobody gets to that work, because it is never the most urgent thing in the week, and the person who would do it is the person the incidents already consumed. The economics are the interesting part: the highest-return work is the work that runs when nothing is wrong. A cause that produces a page every three weeks costs more over a quarter than the change that would remove it, but the change never gets prioritized against a live incident. This module puts the proposal in front of you at the moment the evidence is strongest — right after the incident that proves it. Good looks like a falling count of repeat causes, and each closed one traceable to a specific change you approved.

The workflows inside it

This module contains 2 workflows.

Error-budget burn triage

Reads where reliability budget is actually going and ranks it — which service, which cause, and how much of the budget each consumed. The output is an ordered list of what to fix, rather than a dashboard you have to interpret.

Recurring failure → fix propose

Runs when a failure pattern repeats. It identifies the recurrence, then proposes the concrete improvement — frequently an agent that performs the maintenance the recurrence needs, configured with its trigger, its permitted actions, and a dry run before it is live.
After an incident resolves, a Reliability optimization insight appears on the incident itself with the recommended next agent and a link straight into building it, so the proposal arrives while the incident is still fresh.

What it needs connected

Enabling it

1

Open Modules → Overview

Proactive reliability optimization appears in the AI SRE family with the two workflows it contains.
2

Turn it on

Enabling the module adds it to your sidebar.
3

Point it at your history

Give it the incident history and indicators to read, then bind an agent to each step you expect to run.

What you see when it runs

The module lists the improvements it has proposed, each with the pattern that justifies it: how often the failure recurred, what it cost in budget, and what specifically it proposes to change. Where the proposal is an agent, you get its configuration to review — trigger, permitted actions, and a dry run — before anything is live. Nothing here changes production on its own. Every proposal is a decision you take, with the evidence that motivated it attached.

Next steps

Incident management & troubleshooting

Where recurring production failures and their evidence are recorded.

Runs & evidence

How to inspect the history behind a reliability proposal.

Build from scratch

How a proposed agent gets built and deployed.

Continuous Improvement

The same loop applied to the fleet itself.