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03 / OBSERVABILITY & AIOPS09 service capabilities

Observability & AIOps Systems

Connect unified telemetry, service semantics, incident workflows, and intelligent analysis into a reliability operating system.

Unified telemetrySemantic correlationIncident loopAIOps analysisOperations agentsSLO and FinOps

Customer challenges

Recover complete operating context from fragmented signals

01

Visibility gaps

Incomplete signals leave users discovering failures first.

02

Fragmented data and tools

Telemetry, changes, and tickets lack shared semantics.

03

Alert noise

Duplicate and derived alerts hide actionable incidents.

04

Experience-dependent diagnosis

Experts manually assemble impact and cause evidence.

Capability chain

Unify evidence, understand relationships, and drive reliable response

  1. 01Collect

    Unify metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and traffic.

  2. 02Standardize

    Create a shared language through labels, models, and quality rules.

  3. 03Correlate

    Connect services, resources, changes, owners, and business context.

  4. 04Analyze

    Use rules, models, and topology algorithms to identify anomalies and candidates.

  5. 05Decide

    Produce reviewable recommendations from impact, SLOs, and operating knowledge.

  6. 06Close the loop

    Connect incidents, tickets, response, review, and improvement.

Service scope

Nine work packages across observability, reliability, and intelligent operations

01

Observability strategy and data model design

Define objectives, layered models, labels, tool boundaries, and the roadmap.

An executable blueprint connecting data to operations.
02

Unified collection of metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and traffic

Build collection, processing, routing, storage, retention, and data-quality controls.

A consistent and traceable observability data foundation.
03

Application performance and business observability

Implement APM, real-user, transaction, SLO, and service-health views.

Application health and impact expressed through business semantics.
04

Infrastructure, cloud-native, and middleware observability

Unify hosts, networks, storage, Kubernetes, databases, and middleware observability.

A unified operational view from resources to services.
05

Semantic correlation, call topology, and business maps

Build call topology, resource relationships, business maps, and semantic models.

Fragmented signals become verifiable operational context.
06

Alert, event, and incident management systems

Build event aggregation, severity, routing, response, escalation, and review loops.

A standardized incident system from signal to review.
07

AIOps anomaly detection, correlation, and root-cause analysis

Build anomaly detection, event correlation, topology impact, and root-cause candidate evidence.

Explainable and reviewable anomaly and root-cause analysis.
08

Capacity, performance, and FinOps optimization

Build forecasting, performance baselines, allocation, cost analysis, and optimization loops.

Continuous optimization within service-level constraints.
09

LLM enhancement and intelligent operations agent engineering

Build retrieval, tool use, orchestration, evaluation, access, and audit controls.

Faster operations collaboration within controlled boundaries.

Coverage

Cover the full runtime from infrastructure to AI agents

01

Infrastructure

Hosts, networks, storage, and cloud resources

  • Capacity and utilization
  • Network and storage
  • Resource health
02

Cloud native

Kubernetes, containers, clusters, and platform services

  • Clusters and nodes
  • Workloads
  • Control plane
03

Middleware

Databases, messaging, cache, and API gateways

  • Connections and throughput
  • Dependencies
  • Service quality
04

Applications and business

APM, real users, transactions, and SLOs

  • User experience
  • Transactions
  • Service objectives
05

Data and AI platforms

Data pipelines, model services, GPU, and inference

  • Data jobs
  • Inference performance
  • Resource cost
06

Agent systems

Model calls, retrieval, tools, and task traces

  • Models and tokens
  • Retrieval quality
  • Tool execution

Semantic correlation center

Turn fragmented telemetry into verifiable service and business relationships

  1. 01 Source layer

    Connect telemetry, CMDB, changes, tickets, and business data.

  2. 02 Processing and quality

    Collect, clean, normalize, align, and govern data quality.

  3. 03 Semantic model

    Model applications, services, resources, business, owners, and changes.

  4. 04 Correlation and analysis

    Build verifiable evidence through graph relations, topology, rules, and algorithms.

  5. 05 Scenario services

    Support incidents, change, capacity, cost, SLOs, and intelligent operations.

Incident and reliability loop

A standard process from detection to learning

  1. 01
    Detect

    Identify anomalies with baselines and SLOs

  2. 02
    Converge

    Deduplicate, suppress, and cluster alerts

  3. 03
    Correlate

    Add topology, change, and business context

  4. 04
    Diagnose

    Rank candidates, impact, and evidence

  5. 05
    Respond

    Connect owners, tickets, and runbooks

  6. 06
    Learn

    Capture knowledge and improve rules and models

AIOps

Improve analysis speed and consistency with algorithms and topology evidence

01

Anomaly detection

Find deviations, trends, and compound anomalies beyond static thresholds.

02

Alert reduction

Converge duplicate, derived, and common-cause alerts into incidents.

03

Root-cause candidates

Rank candidates using topology, timing, and change evidence.

04

Impact analysis

Use service and business relations to determine blast radius and priority.

05

Change risk

Compare releases with baselines, history, and dependencies.

06

Capacity and FinOps

Analyze capacity, performance, utilization, and cost within service targets.

LLM augmentation

Make operating evidence easier to understand and use

LLMs do not replace anomaly detection or root-cause judgment. Rules, models, and topology algorithms provide evidence; LLMs retrieve, explain, summarize, collaborate, and support controlled execution.

Incident analysis agent

Summarize incidents, candidates, impact, and evidence links.

Operations Q&A agent

Retrieve telemetry, topology, knowledge, and history within access controls.

Change risk agent

Explain related changes, risk signals, and recommended validation.

Operations reporting agent

Draft reports, briefings, and reviews with citations.

Target system

Five layers connect data, analysis, scenarios, and governance

  1. 01Unified operations entry

    Role workspaces, service health, incidents, and intelligent interaction

  2. 02Scenario applications

    Application observability, incidents, change risk, capacity, and FinOps

  3. 03Intelligent analysis

    Anomaly detection, event correlation, topology, and candidates

  4. 04Semantic and data layer

    Observation models, service topology, business maps, and unified data

  5. 05Governance and integration

    Data quality, model evaluation, knowledge, access, audit, and integration

Implementation

A five-stage path from assessment to continuous operations

  1. 01Assess

    Inventory tools, data, workflows, teams, and priority scenarios.

  2. 02Standardize and collect

    Unify objects, labels, data quality, and collection architecture.

  3. 03Events and semantics

    Build the event model, service topology, business map, and response loop.

  4. 04AIOps pilots

    Validate algorithms, evidence, and operating measures in high-value scenarios.

  5. 05Agents and operations

    Expand intelligent collaboration under access, evaluation, and audit controls.

Deliverables

Deliver the blueprint, standards, workflows, and validated scenarios

01Strategy and roadmap

Objectives, capability map, technology path, phases, and investment boundaries.

02Data standards and collection

Observation objects, labels, ingestion, quality, and cost policies.

03Semantic model and business map

Service, resource, change, ownership, and business relationships.

04Incident management system

Severity, routing, collaboration, escalation, runbooks, and reviews.

05AIOps scenarios and evaluation

Algorithms, evidence, scenario validation, and effectiveness baselines.

06Operations agent design

Knowledge, tools, access, evaluation, audit, and controlled execution.