From reactive firefighting to proactive operations: custom skills for Azure SRE Agent

From reactive firefighting to proactive operations: custom skills for Azure SRE Agent TL;DR: Azure SRE Agent is great at reactive incident response, but doesn’t cover proactive operations out of the box. I built an open-source pack of 8 custom skills that add governance audits, FinOps reporting, capacity planning, postmortems, and more. Combined with Scheduled Investigations, they move your operations from reactive to proactive. How a customer conversation revealed the gap between what Azure SRE Agent does out of the box, and what production teams actually need. ...

July 30, 2026 · 7 min · Ricardo Martins