RunAs Radio Azure SRE Agents with Deepthi Chelupati
Nov 19, 2025
Deepthi Chelupati, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, dives into the world of Azure SRE Agents, discussing their potential to streamline serverless applications. She explains how these agents can monitor deployment issues, automate incident responses, and integrate with tools like GitHub and Azure DevOps. Deepthi highlights their ability to learn from past incidents, manage telemetry changes, and facilitate incident response while ensuring flexibility between automated actions and human oversight. Excitement is building around how SRE Agents can significantly enhance operational efficiency.
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End-To-End Incident Workflow
- The agent combines Azure expertise with incident management and developer tool integration out of the box.
- It can diagnose outages, summarize incidents, and hand off to coding agents to generate PRs.
Provision Carefully With RBAC
- Provision the SRE Agent like any Azure resource and use RBAC to limit its permissions.
- Keep the agent in review mode unless you explicitly authorize it to modify resources.
Bring Runbooks Into The Agent
- Import runbooks as incident response plans so the agent executes familiar steps automatically.
- Configure cases where the agent can autonomously remediate and where it must wait for approval.