Use Case - Confidential
QK AI Labs - Agentic Site Reliability Engineering

From reactive, siloed operations to an Enterprise Brain with SRE agents on top

A use case: how we replace fragmented, manual monitoring with an Enterprise Brain, a stitched telemetry graph, a service ontology and a crew of SRE agents that detect, diagnose and resolve before customers feel it.

Use case
Agentic SRE - AI-Led Operations
Journey
Brain to stitched graph to ontology to agents
By
QK AI Labs, QualityKiosk Technologies
Executive summary

SRE Agents, by QK AI Labs

The lighthouse: I watch every signal across your estate, turn thousands of alerts into the one incident that matters, and find the cause before your customers feel it.

SRE Agents turn production operations from reactive and siloed into proactive and correlated. A crew of specialised reliability agents stitches your existing monitoring tools into one Enterprise Brain, watches every journey, and resolves incidents through automated detection, root-cause analysis and approved remediation, with a human in the loop.

They replace no tool. They sit on top of what you already run, learn normal behaviour per service, and compound: faster detection, faster resolution, less noise, fewer tickets, and a brain that gets smarter with every incident.

50-80%
faster detection (MTTD)
40-70%
faster resolution (MTTR)
60-90%
alert noise filtered
3-5x
ROI at steady state
TODAY Reactive, siloed ops Mobile, backend, synthetic seen apart Root cause hunted by hand for hours Alert noise buries the real incident WITH SRE AGENTS Proactive, correlated ops One stitched view of every journey Auto-RCA in minutes, cause pinpointed Noise filtered to the one incident The shift is not more dashboards. It is one correlated brain that finds cause before customers feel it.
Where reliability work sits today, and where SRE Agents move it

Figures are directional and the baseline is set in a short discovery. First value lands at stitching; the gains compound as the brain learns your estate.

The problem

Reliability is reactive, and the signals do not talk

The lighthouse: mobile, backend and synthetic each see a slice. When something breaks, nobody sees the whole journey, so every incident becomes a hunt.

A large enterprise runs a sprawling estate of applications monitored by different tools that never speak to each other. Reliability is human-powered and reactive: an alert fires, and on-call pieces the story together by hand across dashboards. The cost is slow detection, slow resolution, alert fatigue and a support queue that grows faster than the team.

CURRENT WITH QK End-to-end traceability Siloed One stitched journey Mean time to detect (MTTD) 30 to 45 min 5 to 10 min Mean time to resolve (MTTR) 1 to 2 hr 30 to 45 min Alert noise reaching on-call Floods the queue Filtered to signal L1 and L2 ticket deflection Mostly manual Auto-RCA, deflected BARS ARE DIRECTIONAL; LEFT IS EFFORT OR RISK TODAY, AMBER IS THE TARGET STATE SET IN DISCOVERY
In production operations, fragmentation is both the delay and the risk
Our solution

An Enterprise Brain, then SRE agents on top

The toolbox: we do not start with bots. We stitch your signals into one brain, teach it your services, and only then let the reliability agents act on it.

Our solution is a journey, built from the ground up. First we build the Enterprise Brain. On it we form a Stitched Telemetry Graph that correlates every signal. On that we layer a Service Ontology, the shared language of your estate. Only then do the SRE agents go to work on top, and the AI Lens keeps every layer current.

SRE Agents (Maestro) specialised reliability agents on top Watchtower watch and detect Correlator stitch signal to cause RCA agent root cause in minutes Remediation act, with approval Service Ontology the shared language of your estate Services apps, APIs, journeys Dependencies upstream, downstream SLOs error budgets, thresholds Ownership teams and on-call Stitched Telemetry Graph every signal correlated on shared keys RUM mobile and web APM and infra backend, cloud Synthetic proactive journeys Logs and ITSM events, tickets Signals flow up into the brain Context flows down to the agents Enterprise Brain the retrieval-augmented foundation, built by the Graph Builder
We build bottom-up: the brain, then the stitched graph, then the ontology, then the SRE agents
Why this order matters

Agents are only as safe as the brain beneath them. Stitch the signals, map the services and set the ontology first, and the agents become deterministic and explainable. Skip them and automated action on production is guesswork.

The stitching

Stitching: one correlated journey, no tool replaced

The heart of the solution is stitching. We connect to the tools you already run, correlate their signals on shared keys, and build one journey view from the customer's device all the way to the backend service. This is the foundation every agent reasons on.

Connect Correlate Unify 1 Ingest RUM, APM, synthetic, logs and ITSM taken in any format from any tool 2 Key Signals tied together on shared keys such as user, request and trace id 3 Map Service graph built: dependencies, journeys and downstream impact 4 Baseline Normal behaviour learned per service, so anomalies stand out 5 One view A single correlated journey from device tap to backend service No tool is replaced; the agents stitch what you already run into one correlated view
Stitching turns disconnected monitoring tools into one correlated journey
Unified monitoring

One command centre across every surface

The lighthouse: one view per surface and a common command centre, so a service metric instantly becomes how many real customers are affected.

On the stitched graph we build a unified command centre. Each surface, mobile and web, has its own correlated view, and a common view spans them all. The reverse view turns a service metric into real customer impact, live.

Mobile and web RUM real user experience APM and infrastructure backend and cloud health Synthetic journeys proactive, pre-emptive checks Logs and events the detail behind a spike ITSM and tickets what customers reported Service-to-user view how many are really affected Unified Command Centre ONE CORRELATED VIEW PER SURFACE AND A COMMON COMMAND CENTRE ACROSS ALL OF THEM
Every signal feeds one command centre, keyed to the real customer journey
The continuous improvement engine

The AI Lens for operations: detect, diagnose, act

The lighthouse: I catch the anomaly, correlate it to the true cause across the graph, propose or run the fix with your approval, and feed every incident back into the brain.

The AI Lens for operations is the loop that keeps the brain, graph and ontology current. It detects anomalies against learned baselines, diagnoses the true cause across the stitched graph, and acts with human approval, collapsing alert noise into the single incident that matters.

Anomaly or alert A spike, a failed journey, or a degraded SLO AI Lens for ops: detect, diagnose, act 01 Detect Catches the anomaly against the learned baseline signal SLO 02 Diagnose Correlates across the graph to the true cause RCA impact 03 Act Proposes or runs the fix, with human approval remediate OUTCOME Noise becomes one incident Thousands of alerts collapse to the single thing that matters OUTCOME Brain gets smarter Every incident and fix feeds back, so the next detection is
The AI Lens is the loop that turns raw signal into a resolved incident

This is the engine of continuous improvement. Every incident and every fix feeds back, so detection gets faster and automated remediation becomes safer over time.

The agents

The SRE Maestro agents on top

The lighthouse: with the brain in place, each agent has a job, and together we run reliability from first signal to resolved incident and evidence.

With the brain, graph and ontology in place, the SRE Maestro agents do the reliability work. Each is a specialist; all draw on the same foundation, so every action is consistent, explainable and auditable.

Watchtower agent detects and triages Correlation agent stitches signal to cause RCA agent pinpoints root cause Exception agent classifies errors by impact Remediation agent acts, with approval Ticket and Report agent deflects and evidences Enterprise Brain plus Service Ontology SRE AGENTS ALL DRAW ON THE SAME BRAIN, GRAPH AND ONTOLOGY, SO EVERY ACTION IS EXPLAINABLE
The SRE agents sit on top of the brain and run reliability end to end
ROI and savings

The savings, and how they compound

The rocket: the return is not one number. Detection speeds up first, then resolution, then the ticket queue shrinks, and the gains stack into 3 to 5x ROI.

The savings come from four compounding effects: faster detection, faster resolution, less alert noise and higher ticket deflection. Each lands in sequence as the brain learns your estate, building to a steady-state return of 3 to 5x.

Baseline MTTR 1 to 2 hr Stitch (L0) detect in minutes Intelligence (L1-L2) auto-RCA, less noise 3-5x ROI at steady state REACTIVE, MANUAL OPS AUTONOMOUS, SELF-IMPROVING
Savings compound: faster detection, faster resolution, fewer tickets, then 3 to 5x ROI

Where the savings come from

LeverBaselineWith SRE AgentsEffect
Mean time to detect30 to 45 min5 to 10 min50 to 80% faster
Mean time to resolve1 to 2 hr30 to 45 min40 to 70% faster
Alert noise to on-callUnfiltered floodSignal only60 to 90% filtered
L1 and L2 deflectionMostly manualAuto-RCA30 to 60% deflected
Anomaly coverageThreshold rulesLearned baselinesUp to 3x
Steady-state return--3 to 5x ROI

All figures are directional; the baseline for your estate is measured in a short discovery, and the business case is built against it.

The savings story

Less downtime, fewer people-hours, happier customers. Faster detection and resolution cut revenue-impacting downtime; noise filtering and deflection free the on-call and support teams; the brain compounds the gain every month.

Roadmap

Stitch first, then climb L0 to L4

The honest trajectory: first value at stitching, then diagnosis, then automation, then earned autonomy. Nothing acts on production blind; a human stays in the loop until the brain and guardrails prove themselves.

M1 - L0 Stitch unified view, foundation M2 - L1 Diagnose auto-RCA, exception intel M3 - L2 Automate alert intel, ticket deflection M4 - L3-L4 Autonomous self-healing, review on exception AUTONOMY IS EARNED AS THE BRAIN MATURES; NOTHING ACTS ON PRODUCTION BLIND
From reactive monitoring to autonomous reliability, earned milestone by milestone
Where to start

Pick one or two live services. We stitch their signals into the Enterprise Brain, stand up the command centre, put the Watchtower and RCA agents to work, and measure MTTD and MTTR against your current baseline. Then we expand service by service.

Start the journey

Stitch one estate, prove the savings

Give us one or two live services and the tools that watch them. We stitch their signals into the Enterprise Brain, stand up the command centre, put the SRE agents to work, and show the detection and resolution gains before you commit further.

Shakthi
General Manager - QK AI Labs, QualityKiosk Technologies