Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams rely on a variety of tools to support their work and fulfill their responsibilities. The specific tools used may vary depending on the organization, technology stack, and specific needs of the SRE team. Here are some common categories of tools that SREs often utilize:

1. Monitoring and Observability Tools :
   * Prometheus: A popular open-source monitoring and alerting system.
   * Grafana: A visualization and analytics platform used for monitoring and metric analysis.
   * Datadog: A cloud monitoring and observability platform with various integrations and analytics capabilities.
   * New Relic: An application performance monitoring (APM) tool providing real-time insights into application behavior.

2. Incident Management and Collaboration Tools :
   * PagerDuty: An incident management platform for alerting, on-call scheduling, and response orchestration.
   * Jira: A popular issue tracking and project management tool often used for incident management and task tracking.
   * Slack: A team collaboration platform for real-time communication and incident response coordination.
   * Microsoft Teams: A communication and collaboration platform commonly used for incident response and team collaboration.

3. Configuration Management and Infrastructure Provisioning Tools :
   * Ansible: An open-source automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and infrastructure provisioning.
   * Terraform: An infrastructure as code (IaC) tool used to provision and manage cloud resources and infrastructure.
   * Puppet: A configuration management tool for automating infrastructure deployment, configuration, and management.
   * Chef: A configuration management tool for infrastructure automation and application deployment. 4. Version Control and Code Collaboration Tools :
   * Git: A distributed version control system widely used for code management and collaboration.
   * GitHub: A web-based hosting service for Git repositories, often used for version control, code review, and collaboration.
   * Bitbucket: A Git-based code collaboration platform that supports code hosting, version control, and pull requests.

5. Incident Response and Postmortem Tools :
   * Incident.io: An incident response and management tool designed to streamline incident communication, coordination, and resolution.
   * PostHog: A tool for tracking and analyzing user behavior, often used in incident investigations and postmortems.
   * Miro: A digital whiteboard and collaboration tool used for visualizing incidents, conducting postmortems, and documenting action items.

6. Automation and Orchestration Tools :
   * Jenkins: An open-source automation server used for continuous integration, deployment, and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
   * Kubernetes: An open-source container orchestration platform widely used for deploying and managing containerized applications.
   * AWS Lambda: A serverless computing service that allows running code without provisioning or managing servers.
   * Google Cloud Functions: A serverless execution environment for building and running event-driven applications.