Cloud Canaries Introduces Intelligent Canaries for Proactive DevOps Optimization

Cloud Intelligence's superior observability promotes community collaboration and eliminates unplanned work to drive innovation

BOSTON, JULY 16, 2024, Cloud Canaries, a Cloud Intelligence company, today unveiled its new Intelligent Canaries to improve how organizations monitor and optimize their cloud environments. Intelligent Canaries help software engineering and delivery teams practicing DevOps proactively detect, predict, and autonomously resolve system issues before they impact operations.  With Cloud Canaries, teams can create and deploy canaries in minutes and quickly predict issues by turning all cloud data into business insights that drive outcomes.

In addition, Cloud Canaries fosters a collaborative community through shared Intelligent Canaries within its Canary Marketplace. Developers can create and share canaries to address the most common use cases to observe, secure, and govern the cloud at 10% of today’s costs. By embracing open-source principles, software teams can leverage shared knowledge within an interconnected and inclusive ecosystem.

Beyond Observability

Current observability solutions are expensive and complex and use a log file-based approach that is less effective than workload-based solutions. Intelligent Canaries are lightweight agents that detect issues, safeguard change and risk management, and provide real-time performance monitoring and precise problem resolution. They allow software developers and engineering teams to innovate fearlessly while empowering IT managers to transform observability into a value-based initiative.

"Cloud Intelligence differs from today's legacy observability software as it offers a more cost-effective and flexible approach to monitor and optimize cloud environments," said Mark Callahan, founder and CEO of Cloud Canaries. "Intelligent Canaries free teams from the system issues and operational obstacles that block innovation."

Cloud Intelligence represents a paradigm shift in system observability to improve DevOps and increase innovation by eliminating unplanned and distracting roadblocks. It supports DevOps' purpose to deploy small, controlled changes while empowering teams to control their destiny and innovate confidently. 

Intelligent Canaries are highly effective at: 

• Early Detection of Issues: Intelligent Canaries act as early indicators by proactively detecting and pinpointing the root cause of potential problems or anomalies to isolate and address issues promptly.
• Risk Mitigation: By introducing changes gradually to a small subset of the system (Canary group), teams can assess the impact of changes in a controlled environment, reducing the risk of widespread failures.
• Performance Monitoring: Intelligent Canaries provide real-time feedback on system performance, helping teams monitor key metrics and ensure systems operate within acceptable parameters.
• Continuous Improvement: Teams can refine processes, performance, and reliability for incremental improvements by monitoring insights from Intelligent Canaries.
• Always Proactive: Intelligent Canaries maintain system stability and resilience by facilitating autonomous fixing of issues and system optimization.

“The DevOps industry faces challenges such as manual processes, reactive problem-solving, outdated architectures and poor team collaboration,” says Callahan. “Cloud Intelligence addresses these issues to meet the evolving needs of IT teams dealing with complex cloud environments.”

About Cloud Canaries

Cloud Canaries empowers software engineering teams practicing DevOps to unleash their superpowers. Its Intelligent Canaries detect and resolve issues that hinder innovation by going beyond traditional log-file observability to capture performance insights from any workload, making predictive and autonomous healing simple and affordable. Its Cloud Intelligence platform lets DevOps teams take control and prioritize what matters most through actionable insights, proactive monitoring and automated problem resolution. With Cloud Canaries, customers optimize every resource to make innovation possible.