AI is forcing SRE and platform teams to grow up fast, new report finds

A new global survey suggests artificial intelligence is pushing the engineers who keep systems running to rewrite their playbooks as it moves from pilot projects into everyday business operations. Dynatrace’s “The State of SRE and Platform Engineering 2026” report, based on responses from 919 senior IT leaders across 16 countries, paints a picture of two mature disciplines under fresh pressure. Two disciplines, one shared headache Site reliability engineering (SRE) and platform engineering have