Causality
The Signal in the Storm: Why Chasing More Data Misses the Point
More telemetry doesn’t guarantee more understanding. In many cases, it gives you the illusion of control while silently eroding your ability to reason about the system.
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observability
When Everything Is Instrumented, and You Still Don’t Know What’s Broken
In 'Rethinking Reliability for Distributed Systems,' Endre Sara shared a common story: a large-scale customer, running mature microservices in Kubernetes with full observability coverage, still struggles to understand what’s broken during a high-stakes business event.
observability
Making Observability Work: From Hype to Causal Insight
A few weeks back, I joined Charity Majors, Paige Cruz, Avi Freedman, Shahar Azulay, and Adam LaGreca for a roundtable on the state of modern observability. It was an honest conversation about where we are, what’s broken, and where things are heading. You can read the full summary on
Blog
Alarm Suppression is Not Root Cause Analysis
“Root Cause Analysis” (RCA) is one of the most overloaded terms in modern engineering. Some call a tagged log line RCA. Others label time-series correlation dashboards or AI-generated summaries as RCA. Some reduce noise by filtering or hiding secondary and cascading alarms. And recently large language models (LLMs) have entered
Causality
If Planes Can Fly Themselves Then Why Can’t IT Management be Autonomous?
When it comes to observability and IT operations, our goal should be to get humans out of the loop as much as possible.
integration
From Dashboards to Decisions: Introducing the Causely Plugin for Grafana
With Causely, you can see the why behind what’s happening without having to leave your Grafana interface.
Webinar
From Visibility to Control - Key Takeaways from a Fireside Chat with Viktor Farcic & Shmuel Kliger
“You actually cannot do meaningful reasoning especially when it comes to root cause analysis with LLMs or machine learning alone. You need more than that.” -Shmuel Kliger, Founder of Causely
Causely product
Building a Reasoning Platform, Together
A version upgrade. A schema change. And suddenly, a critical service stalls. MySQL 8’s hidden metadata locking behavior has tripped up even the most prepared teams. We captured this knowledge — and now, Causely can pinpoint it. If you’ve learned about how Causely works, you already know that our
Causality
Causal Reasoning: The Missing Piece to Service Reliability
Assuring service reliability is the most critical goal of IT. It was never easy, and it is getting increasingly complex as businesses require greater speed, agility, and scalability to stay competitive and respond quickly to changing market demands. These needs are driving the adoption of microservices architectures, enabling organizations to
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How We Used Causely to Solve a Crashing Bug in Our Own App—Fast
At Causely, we don’t just ship software – we run a reasoning platform designed to detect, diagnose, and resolve failure conditions with minimal human intervention. Our own cloud-native application runs in a highly distributed environment, with dozens of interdependent microservices communicating in real-time. It’s complex, dynamic, and constantly evolving—