AI-Augmented SRE: Where It Earns Its Keep, And Where It Doesn't

Every observability vendor has bolted "AI" to their landing page. Half of those features are genuine improvements. The other half are autocomplete in a costume. After a few years of running these tools across enterprise estates, here is where AI-augmented SRE actually pays off, where it doesn't, and what we'd advise teams adopting it today. Where AI earns its keep 1. Anomaly detection at scale The single most defensible use case. A medium-sized estate produces hundreds of thousands of metric series, and the threshold-based alerting that worked at 50 services collapses under that volume.