SRE-Marathon: A Continuous, Change-Driven Benchmark for Autonomous Site Reliability Agents

arXiv:2609.33023 · cs.AI, cs.SE · Submitted 2026-09-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.SE

Submitted: 2026-09-26

Updated: 2026-09-26

Code: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo

Terminology

• Benchmark — 42× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• RAG — 19× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Root Cause Analysis — 9× in this paper
• Trace — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Aggregation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Automated Software Engineering — 2× in this paper
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Approaches — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hybrid Approach — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifiable Rewards — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
• Agentic Observability: Automated Alert Triage for Adobe E-Commerce
• SREGym: A Live Benchmark for AI SRE Agents with High-Fidelity Failure Scenarios
• OpenRCA 2.0: From Outcome Labels to Causal Process Supervision
• ORCA-bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall?
• Argos: Agentic Time-Series Anomaly Detection with Autonomous Rule Generation via Large Language Models
• OpsMem: Dual-Memory Reasoning with Cross-Memory Resonance for Failure Diagnosis
• Cloud-OpsBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Agentic Root Cause Analysis in Cloud Systems

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