r/sysadmin

Updated Aug 7

A reddit dedicated to the profession of Computer System Administration.

Members

1,308,117

1.3M

Posts per day

no sample yet

Comments per post

no sample yet

Growth · 7d

not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

medium

read the sidebar rules first

Tracking since Aug 7 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows.

Member growth

Tracking since Aug 7 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/sysadmin — frequently asked

How many members does r/sysadmin have?

r/sysadmin has 1,308,117 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 7. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/sysadmin growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/sysadmin yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 7; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/sysadmin?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/sysadmin yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the crawl accumulates more.

Can I promote my product in r/sysadmin?

Our read on r/sysadmin is medium promo tolerance. A product mention is fine when it genuinely answers the question asked, and unwelcome when it does not. Always read the sidebar rules before you post; moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.

How do I monitor r/sysadmin for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/sysadmin into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

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