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Collecting “more data” has been the defining characteristic of observability practices and tools for the last few decades. But over-collection creates inefficiencies, noise, and cost without adding meaningful value. This trajectory must and can be changed.

By identifying potential risks in real time, predicting future demand, and adapting resources dynamically, teams can maintain reliability even under extreme conditions. This isn’t about eliminating unpredictability; it’s about building systems that respond intelligently to it.

Making changes to production environments is one of the riskiest parts of managing complex systems. In 2025, let's transform how changes are made, empowering teams to anticipate risks, validate decisions, and protect system stability—all before the first line of code is deployed.

There are 13 tenets of Causely that are required to continuously assure applications reliability and performance. With Causely, teams automate root cause analysis, prevent SLO violations, and gain transparency and organizational alignment.

Explore the challenges of multi-team escalations, and the capabilities needed to address them. We’ll show how observability can be transformed to make escalations less contentious and more productive.

SREs and developers can make troubleshooting more manageable in 2025 by adopting systems that solve the root cause analysis problem.

Read the Observability 360 announcement of all The O11ys 2024 winners.  Best Use of AI Winner: Causely Many observability systems now claim to support Root Cause Analysis. At the same time though, most of these systems use algorithms – admittedly, advanced…

CPU throttling is a frequent challenge in containerized environments, particularly for resource-intensive applications. It happens when a container surpasses its allocated CPU limits, prompting the scheduler to restrict CPU usage. While this mechanism ensures fair resource sharing, it can significan

Assuring application reliability is a persistent challenge faced by every IT organization, complicated by rapid technology evolution and the increased emphasis on lean engineering.  One trend among progressive companies is to designate a “Service Owner” who is responsible for making…

Based on my LinkedIn news feed, it must be that time of year when thousands of open source enthusiasts congregate to talk tech at various parties, dinners, and other networking events surrounding KubeCon. In fact, we’re hosting a couple of…

KubeCon North America 2024 is around the corner! This year I’m especially excited, as it’s my first KubeCon since we launched Causely. The energy at KubeCon is unmatched, and it’s a great opportunity to catch up with familiar faces and make new…

Takeaways from eBPF Summit 2024 How are organizations applying eBPF to solve real problems in observability, security, profiling, and networking? It’s a question I’ve found myself asking as I work in and around the observability space – and I was pleasantly…

Finding meaning in a world of acronyms There are so many ways to measure application reliability today, with hundreds of key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure availability, error rates, user experiences, and quality of service (QoS). Yet every organization I…

In an article that I published nearly two years ago titled Are Humans Actually Underrated, I talked about how technology can be used to augment human intelligence to empower humans to work better, smarter and faster. The notion that technology…

Running containerized applications at scale with Kubernetes demands careful resource management. One very complicated but common challenge is preventing Out-of-Memory (OOM) kills, which occur when a container’s memory consumption surpasses its allocated limit. This brutal termination by the Kubernet

Yotam Yemini joins Causely as CEO after departing Cisco and previously leading go-to-market efforts at Oort, Quantum Metric, and IBM Turbonomic   Thursday, August 22, 2024 – Today, Causely is excited to welcome Yotam Yemini as the company’s Chief Executive…

Digital disruptions have reached alarming levels. Incident response in modern application environments is frequent, time-consuming and labor intensive. Our team has first-hand experience dealing with the far-reaching impacts of these disruptions and outages, having spent decades in IT Ops….

The software industry is at a crossroads. I believe those who embrace explainability as a key part of their strategy will emerge as leaders. Those who resist will risk losing customer confidence and market share. The time for obfuscation is…

Application reliability is a dynamic challenge, especially in cloud-native environments. Ensuring that your applications are running smoothly is make-or-break when it comes to user experience. One essential tool for this is the Kubernetes readiness probe. This blog will explore the…

Microservices architectures offer many benefits, but they also introduce new challenges. One such challenge is the cascading effect of simple failures. A seemingly minor issue in one microservice can quickly snowball, impacting other services and ultimately disrupting user experience. The…

OpenTelemetry (fondly known as OTel) is an open-source project that provides a unified set of APIs, libraries, agents, and instrumentation to capture and export logs, metrics, and traces from applications. The project’s goal is to standardize observability across various services…

Causely assures continuous reliability of cloud applications. Causely for Cloud-Native Applications, built on our Causal Reasoning Platform, automatically captures cause and effect relationships based on real-time, dynamic data across the entire application environment. This means that we can detect

Imagine a world where user experiences adapt to you in real time. Personalized recommendations appear before you even think of them, updates happen instantaneously, and interactions flow seamlessly. This captivating world is powered by real-time data, the lifeblood of modern…

Sometimes there’s a single book (or movie, podcast or Broadway show) that seems to define a particular time in your life. In my professional life, Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm has always been that book. When I started my career…

Observability has become a growing ecosystem and a common buzzword. Increasing visibility with observability and monitoring tools is helpful, but stopping at visibility isn’t enough. Observability lacks causal reasoning and relies mostly on people to connect application issues with potential…

Causal AI can help IT and DevOps professionals be more productive, freeing hours of time spent troubleshooting so they can instead focus on building new applications. But when applying Causal AI to IT use cases, there are several domain-specific intricacies…

When does culture get established in a startup? I’d say the company’s DNA is set during the first year or two, and the founding team should do everything possible to make this culture intentional vs a series of disconnected decisions….

In this video, we’ll show how easy it is to continuously assure application reliability using Causely’s causal AI platform.   In a modern production microservices environment, the number of alerts from observability tooling can quickly amount to hundreds or even…

The pressure on application teams has never been greater. Whether for Cloud-Native Apps, Hybrid Cloud, IoT, or other critical business services, these teams are accountable for solving problems quickly and effectively, regardless of growing complexity. The good news? There’s a…

The idea of applying AI to determine causality in an automated Root Cause Analysis solution sounds like the Holy Grail, but it’s easier said than done. There’s a lot of misinformation surrounding RCA solutions. This article cuts the confusion and…

🎧 This Tech Tuesday Podcast features Endre Sara, Founding Engineer at Causely! Causely is bridging observability with automated orchestration for self-managed, resilient applications at scale. In this episode, Amir and Endre discuss leadership, how to make people’s lives easier by…

Dr. Shmuel Kliger, the founder of Causely.io, discusses his journey in the IT industry and the development of Causely. With a strong focus on reducing labor associated with IT operations, Dr. Kliger emphasizes the importance of understanding causality and building…

It’s a truism of all cloud SaaS companies that we should run our businesses on our own technology. After all, if this technology is so valuable and innovative that customers with dozens of existing vendors, tools and processes need to…

In the fast-paced world of cloud-native development, ensuring application health and performance is critical. The application of Causal AI, with its ability to understand cause and effect relationships in complex distributed systems, offers the potential to streamline this process. A…

As organizations transform their IT applications and adopt cloud-native architectures, scaling seamlessly while minimizing resource overheads becomes critical. DevOps teams can play a pivotal role in achieving this by embracing automation across various facets of the service delivery process. Automa

Reposted with permission from its original source on LinkedIn.  A digital chill swept through King Reginald as he materialized back in his royal chambers, having returned from the Cloud Economic World Forum. The summit had cast a long shadow, its…

I’ve been in the cloud since 2008. These were the early days of enterprise cloud adoption and the very beginning of hybrid cloud, which to this day remains the dominant form of enterprise cloud usage. Startups that deliver breakthrough infrastructure…

In this video, we’ll show how Causely leverages OpenTelemetry. (For more on how and why we use OpenTelemetry in our causal AI platform, read the blog from Endre Sara.)     Distributed tracing gives you a bird’s eye view of…

Reposted with permission from its source on LinkedIn.  The fate of the realm hangs in the balance. Join the mayhem in Cloud Cuckoo Calamity, the thrilling sequel to Data, Dragons & Digital Dreams. A mournful dirge echoed through the digital…

Implementing OpenTelemetry at the core of our observability strategy for Causely’s SaaS product was a natural decision. In this article I would like to share some background on our rationale and how the combination of OpenTelemetry and Causal AI addresses…

Reposted with permission from its source on LinkedIn.  In the bustling kingdom of Microservice Manor, where code flowed like rivers and servers hummed like contented bees, all was not well. Glitches lurked like mischievous sprites, transactions hiccuped like startled unicorns,…

Managing microservices-based applications at scale is challenging, especially when it comes to troubleshooting and pinpointing root causes. In a microservices-based environment, when a failure occurs, it causes a flood of anomalies across the entire system. Pinpointing the root cause can…

Reposted with permission from LinkedIn.  Modernization Of The RCA Process Over the past month, I have spent a significant amount of time researching what vendors and customers are doing in the devops space to streamline the process of root cause…

The below post is reposted with permission from its original source on the InfraCloud Technologies blog. This MySQL connection draining issue highlights the complexity of troubleshooting today’s complex environments, and provides a great illustration of the many rabbit holes SREs…

Developing and architecting complex, large cloud-native applications is hard. In this short demo, we’ll show how Causely helps to understand failure scenarios before something actually fails in the environment. In the demo environment we have a dozen applications with database…

Running large, complex, distributed cloud-native applications is hard. This short demo shows how Causely can help. In this environment, we are running a number of applications with database servers, caches, in a cluster, multiple services, pods, and containers. At any…

Reposted with permission from LinkedIn. OpenTelemetry and the Path to Understanding Complex Systems Decades ago, the IETF’s (Internet Engineering Task Force) developed an innovative protocol, SNMP, revolutionizing network management. This standardization spurred a surge of innovation, fostering a ne

Reflecting on the boardroom dynamics that truly matter This past month has been an eventful one. Like everyone in the tech world, I’m riveted by the drama unfolding at OpenAI, wondering how the board and CEO created such an extreme…

Welcome back to our series, “One Million Ways to Slow Down Your Application.” Having previously delved into the nuances of Postgres configurations, we now journey into the world of Kafka and asynchronous communication, another critical component of scalable applications. Kafka…

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Why be a serial entrepreneur? It’s a question that my co-founder, Shmuel, and I are asked many times. Both of us have been to this rodeo twice before – Shmuel, with SMARTS and Turbonomic, myself with ClearSky Data and CloudSwitch….

Automation of causality will eliminate human troubleshooting and enable faster, more resilient cloud application management Boston, June 29, 2023 – Causely, Inc., the causal AI company, today announced it has raised $8.8M in Seed funding, led by 645 Ventures with participation…

This blog was originally posted on LinkedIn. Navigating the Perilous Waters of Misconfigured MaxOpenConnection in Postgres Applications Welcome to the inaugural post in our series, “One Million Ways to Slow Down Your Application Response Time and Throughput”. In this series,…

This blog was originally posted on LinkedIn. How causality can eliminate human troubleshooting Tasks that are both laborious and futile are described as Sisyphean. In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was the founder and king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). Hades…