Artificial intelligence-powered observability company Observe Inc. today announced the launch of Kubernetes Explorer, a new addition to its observability platform created to simplify visualizing and troubleshooting for cloud-native environments.

Kubernetes Explorer has been designed to allow DevOps teams, Site Reliability Engineers and software engineers to easily understand disparate Kubernetes components, detect issues quickly, uncover root causes and resolve them faster than ever before.

The release seeks to tackle this issue wherein, as AI and edge computing trends drive Kubernetes adoption, the complexity of observing distributed applications and infrastructure has increased. Observe tackles the issue head-on by unifying fragmented data across metrics, traces and logs to provide insights that span applications, Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.

The service also integrates with Observe’s AI Investigtor to create custom, incident-specific visualizations and suggestions. The combination gives on-call engineers expert Kubernetes assistance while troubleshooting.

Kubernetes Explorer introduces several key features to enhance observability, starting with Kubernetes Hindsight, a feature that provides historical insights for retrospective analysis and optimization in ephemeral environments. Another feature, Cluster Optimization, visualizes workload distribution to identify underutilized capacity and reduce overprovisioning costs.

Additionally, a feature called Resource Descriptors offers detailed visibility into full YAML Ain’t Markup Language configurations, preserving deployment histories for easy version comparisons. The capabilities aim to streamline Kubernetes management and, in doing so, allow teams to optimize resources and improve operational efficiency.

“Kubernetes Explorer represents a leap forward in observability for cloud-native environments,” said Chief Executive Jeremy Burton. “By leveraging Kubernetes Explorer and AI capabilities, we’re enabling teams to cut through the complexity of Kubernetes and quickly pinpoint and resolve issues that would otherwise take much longer to troubleshoot.”

Observe is a venture capital-backed startup that has raised multiple rounds, including $50 million in October 2023 and $115 million in March, the latter round on a valuation believed to be between $400 million and $500 million. Investors in the company include Snowflake Ventures, Capital One Ventures and Madrona Ventures Group.

Burton spoke with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s live streaming studio, in June, when he discussed Observe’s cloud platform analyzes telemetry, or diagnostics data, to detect issues in company applications, with a custom query language, OPAL, that can address the timing of different events:

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