Well, to point, at the very least the SRE post-mortem should have said "And we considered distributing monitoring software to all our datacenters for future ale

Well, to point, at the very least the SRE post-mortem should have said "And we considered distributing monitoring software to all our datacenters for future alerting" [Not to say that every company out there would do this, nor that this wasn't necessarily considered, but definitely questioning the merit/objectivity of a brag-piece that is trying to rebuild the waning google hype]