Cloud Canaries, a cloud intelligence company, has launched to improve how organizations monitor and optimize their cloud environments. Its 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 at a fraction of the cost of today’s observability solutions.

Cloud Canaries is angel-funded, and is founded by industry veteran Mark Callahan, who brings over 17 years of experience at Oracle, specializing in retail applications and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The company’s technical team includes a Harvard Ph.D. specializing in Neural Networks and AI, data analysts, DevOps leaders and experts in time series data and AWS deployment.

“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,” said Cloud Canaries’ CEO Callahan. “By embracing open-source principles, Intelligent Canaries offer software teams the flexibility to address unique cloud environments while sharing knowledge within the Cloud Intelligence community.”

Beyond Observability: Traditional observability solutions rely heavily on instrumentation and complex setups to monitor system health and performance, making it expensive and complex due to log file-based approaches. With Cloud Canaries’ workload-based solution, DevOps teams have a more efficient approach that allows for observability without instrumentation.

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 Callahan. “Intelligent Canaries free teams from the system issues and operational obstacles that block innovation.”