Since emerging from stealth in February, Sawmills has been changing how organizations manage their telemetry data. As the first platform to use AI for in-stream telemetry analysis, we've helped companies dramatically cut costs while improving data quality and signal-to-noise ratios. Today, we're excited to announce updates to our Smart Insights feature that further empower DevOps teams to control their telemetry effectively.
Modern applications generate massive volumes of telemetry data, but much of it creates more problems than solutions. Repeating status updates flood your logs, health checks consume valuable ingestion capacity, and third-party service noise drowns out critical signals. Sawmills helps filter the waste, prevents overages, preserves performance, and keeps your data clean.
Real-Time Intelligence for Your Telemetry Data
Our enhanced Smart Insights feature transforms how you handle telemetry data by analyzing it in real-time as it flows through your system. The majority of solutions on the market require manual optimizations. Sawmills’ AI works directly within your data stream to detect optimization opportunities as they occur, surfacing the telemetry issues that have the most significant impact on your operations, including:
- Pattern Recognition: Our AI identifies log patterns that are high on volume, but very low on observability value - repeating status updates, health checks, noisy third-party service logs, and recurring errors that inflate your data volumes without adding value.
- Impact Quantification: For each identified issue, Smart Insights provides critical metrics including message volume, percentage contribution to overall ingestion, and total impact on your telemetry pipeline.
Deep Visibility Into Every Issue
Each insight provides comprehensive context to help you make informed decisions:
Service-Level Breakdown: View exactly which services, data sources, destinations, and pipelines are impacted by each issue, along with detailed impact timelines and visual sparklines.
Clear Issue Labels: Every insight is accompanied by descriptive names that immediately explain what you're looking at and why it matters.
Historical Context: Track how issues evolve with detailed volume statistics and trend analysis.
Live Investigation: Dive deep into any insight using Sawmills LiveTail to examine actual log lines in real-time, with intelligent filters that help you track patterns and trends as they develop. See the potential impact of your action, using Sawmills’ action simulation capabilities.
From Insight to Action in One Click
In the past, telemetry problems meant chasing down the developer who shipped the offending code. It was tedious. It was inefficient. And it drove up your bill.
Sawmills Smart Insights turns that dynamic on its head. Instead of reacting, your team can now see exactly what's wrong and fix it — directly from the Sawmills UI. Here’s how it works:
Contextual Troubleshooting: Get detailed information about the telemetry data issue as described above with a clear recommendation on how to remediate the issue.
1-Click Actions: For every identified issue, Smart Insights suggests specific automated actions like filtering, aggregating, etc which you can implement with a single click, eliminating the need to track down the developer who shipped the code.
Sawmills represents the next evolution in intelligent telemetry management, moving from reactive processes to proactive optimization that happens at the speed of your data.
Transform Your Telemetry Strategy
Smart Insights is available now as part of the Sawmills platform. Experience the difference that real-time, AI-powered telemetry optimization can make for your organization's observability costs and data quality.
Contact our team to learn how Smart Insights can help you turn your telemetry data from a cost center into a strategic advantage.
