Site reliability engineering, answered
One page per concept behind AI SRE: what it is, how it works, how it is measured, and what people get wrong about it. Longer than a glossary entry and built to be quoted, with the approaches compared on every page.
How does automated root cause analysis actually work?
Judge any RCA system on its first answer, on incidents whose true cause you already know. Every other measurement flatters the tool.
How does causal AI find the root cause of a production incident?
The distinction that matters operationally is not accuracy in the abstract. It is whether the output names a change you can act on or a correlation you still have to investigate.
What is alert triage and how is it automated?
Suppression lowers the page count and hides the same failures. The test of a triage system is what it lets through, not what it silences.
What is blast radius and how is it calculated?
Blast radius is only useful when it is a bound rather than a number on a dashboard. The question is what the system refuses to do when the figure comes back too high.