There were lots of webinars this week in the DevOps space. I am still pushing VnV DevOps for DevOps and IT Service Management consulting. This week, while still pushing forward, I paused to attend several webinars from TechStrong and Cloud Canaries. Part 3 in the “Friends” series from OpenText talked about “the one where automation gets ship done” and another webinar about an Edge AI success story around Sports Analytics. I love the Friends series because I really like what OpenText and Don Jackson (Field CTO, OpenText) is doing in his space around really linking the DevOps Infinity Loop together and minimizing the touchpoints or approvals required in the pipelines. For Edge AI, Latent AI has joined forces with FSP to unveil a unique use case for moving AI processing from the cloud to the edge.

Cloud Canaries (Mark Callahan and Helen Beals) spoke about observability and how Open Telemetry and Agentic AI can help. Their product, Cloud Canaries, allows you to deploy canaries to strengthen observability and monitoring. Two focal points from Mark were bringing a low-cost solution to the table and providing an agentic AI solution around monitoring and observability. Do I really have to learn something new, and can I remove some the old stuff? Agents allow you to “take over” other solutions. So, eventually, a roll-up of solutions could be on tap.

(Courtesy: Cloud Canaries)

Cloud Canaries works with DataBricks and Snowflake to connect to ML AI tools. They also have their own neural network to use for a price. For forecasting, we generally look for events, not deploys or releases. A ticketing system like ServiceNow can be notified. The workflow for that canary can be displayed in the dashboard in order to determine whether the “learning” is correct or if that “learning” needs to be modified.

In 2025, autonomous remediation with low-cost tooling will be the calling for cloud service users and application developers. Increasing observability and monitoring will be part of the equation.

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