Join Datadog and Critical Cloud for an immersive simulation. You'll get to investigate failures and resolve incidents in a live environment.

How many incidents can your team resolve before the time runs out?

Join Datadog and Critical Cloud for an immersive, hands-on reliability engineering challenge where teams investigate failures, troubleshoot distributed systems, and respond to realistic operational incidents in a live cloud-native environment.

Tears of the SRE is a fast-paced interactive simulation designed to showcase how modern engineering teams detect, investigate, and resolve incidents using observability, collaboration, and structured incident response practices.

Working together against the clock, participants will uncover clues, trace issues across Kubernetes and microservices environments, and compete in capture-the-flag style challenges inspired by real-world operational scenarios.

Why Attend?

By participating in Tears of an SRE, you'll:

Experience how modern engineering teams investigate and resolve incidents under pressure

Learn practical troubleshooting techniques for Kubernetes and distributed systems

Improve your understanding of observability-driven incident response

Discover ways to reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) through better visibility and collaboration

Benchmark your approach against real-world reliability engineering practices

Gain hands-on experience using Datadog to accelerate troubleshooting and root cause analysis

Who Should Attend?

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)

Platform Engineers

DevOps Engineers

Cloud & Infrastructure Teams

Software Engineers

Engineering Managers and Technical Leaders

Event Details

- Engine Shed, Station Approach, Bristol BS1 6QH

- 15 September 2026

- 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

- Includes a 90-minute interactive reliability challenge

- Complimentary lunch and refreshments provided

- Network with Datadog experts and fellow engineering leaders

- Free to attend

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