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AI agent for natural language operations and automated remediation

Natural language automation for conversations, escalations and remediation. An AI agent that surfaces root cause, recommends actions and executes playbooks on a recommend-and-approve basis.

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AI Agent and Chatbot
Edge platform · Module
One of twelve modules writing to the Edge Datalake. All signals correlated across modules automatically.
Anomaly confidence scoreRoot cause rankPlaybook step statusEscalation chain stateAgent response time
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EdgeProductionAI Agent · Overwatch
Last 1h
LIVE
Investigations
1 active
6 evidence points
Root causes
1 found
Payments DB pool
Confidence
92%
high · 4 traces
Recommendations
2 actions
approval needed
Time to insight
38 sec
from alert to root cause
Overwatch — investigation13:44 EAT · 38s elapsed
Query
Why is checkout performance degrading for Nairobi users?
Overwatch92% confidence

The degradation originates from Payments DB connection pool saturation on prod-node-08. With 187/200 connections in use, query latency has increased 9.5× causing a cascade through the Payments API into Checkout API.

The Nairobi network path adds +48ms amplifying the impact for users in that region. The root cause is not network-related.

Evidence gathered6 signals analysed
RUM
Checkout Apdex dropped from 0.94 → 0.72 at 13:24
APM
Checkout API response time increased to 1.82s at 13:24
APM
Payments DB query latency 9.5× above baseline
INF
prod-node-08 memory at 91% — above alert threshold
LOG
Connection pool exhausted error pattern: 4.2× spike
NET
Nairobi upstream latency +48ms — may amplify impact
Recommended actionspending approval
Scale DB connection pool

Increase Payments DB max_connections from 200 → 300. Estimated: resolves 94% of current latency.

Risk: Low2 min
Restart prod-node-08 services

Gracefully restart payments-api-7d9f and checkout-api-4b2e pods to clear memory pressure.

Risk: Medium5 min
No action taken without approval
Overwatch analyses and recommends — principals decide.
Evidence-backed answer
Based on 4 traces, 2 infrastructure anomalies, 1 database event and 3 log patterns.
92% confidence
Root cause: Payments DB
Connection pool saturation in Payments DB is responsible for this incident.
Recommended action
Scale connection pool from 200 → 300. Estimated: 94% probability of resolving incident.
Approval required
No automated remediation will occur until a principal reviews and approves.
Connected toAPM — Payments API trace DB — connection pool Infrastructure — prod-node-08
Capabilities

What it puts in front of your teams

Every capability is available from day one. No additional instrumentation required beyond the initial agent deployment.

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01

Natural language automation

Ask questions in plain English. The agent queries the data lake and responds with findings, not dashboards.

02

Escalation and resolution

Automatic escalation through the agreed path. Creates incidents, routes to the right team and follows up.

03

Recommend and approve

The agent surfaces a ranked recommendation and waits for explicit approval before executing any remediation action.

04

Root cause explanation

Plain-language summaries of what happened, what caused it and what to do next, presented to engineers and to management in the right register.

05

Playbook execution

Execute pre-approved runbooks automatically when specific conditions are met, with a full audit trail for every action taken.

06

Multi-channel delivery

Communicate via WhatsApp, Slack, Microsoft Teams, SMS or email based on the urgency level and recipient preferences.

How it works

From signal to action in seconds

01

Deploy once

A lightweight Edge agent deploys to your environment. Auto-discovery maps services, hosts and applications without manual configuration.

02

Collect everything

A CPU spike triggers an alert at 2am. The AI agent analyses the data lake, identifies a memory leak in a specific service, sends a WhatsApp message to the on-call engineer with the root cause and a recommended restart, and waits for approval before acting.

03

Act with confidence

Anomaly detection, root cause analysis and AI-assisted recommendations give your teams the context to act fast and correctly.

What it measures

Signals captured by AI

Anomaly confidence scoreRoot cause rankPlaybook step statusEscalation chain stateAgent response time
In practice
Real scenario

A CPU spike triggers an alert at 2am. The AI agent analyses the data lake, identifies a memory leak in a specific service, sends a WhatsApp message to the on-call engineer with the root cause and a recommended restart, and waits for approval before acting.

Business outcomes

What changes for the business

01

Lower operational load

Routine investigations and escalations handled automatically, reducing on-call burden significantly.

02

Faster response

Root cause and remediation recommendation available within seconds of detection, not minutes or hours.

03

Consistent service

Every incident follows the agreed escalation path. No steps missed under pressure at 3am.

Platform ecosystem

Better together with the Edge platform

AI writes its data to the Edge Datalake, making it queryable and correlatable alongside every other module in real time.

EDGE Platform · Service Topology
COLLECTIONAPPLICATIONINFRASTRUCTUREINTELLIGENCEReal UserBrowser · MobileSyntheticGlobal probesTransactionsE2E tracingApp PerformanceCode-level APMLog MonitoringStructured · tailNetwork Mon.Flow · topologyInfrastructureHosts · VMs · K8sDatabaseQuery insightsSchedulerJob trackingAI AgentAIOps · OverwatchOpenTelemetryOTLP · gRPCEDGE DatalakeUNIFIED · REAL-TIME · QUERYABLE11MODULES100+SOURCES99.99% uptime SLA11 nodes · 11 connections · 1 unified datalakeNCG Africa Ltd
11Modules
< 2%Agent CPU
1Unified Datalake
100+Connectors
Questions

AI Agent and Chatbot questions, answered

What is AIOps?

AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) uses machine learning and data analytics to enhance and automate IT operations. It correlates data from multiple monitoring sources — metrics, logs, events, traces — to identify patterns, detect anomalies, prioritise incidents, and recommend or automate remediation actions. The result is faster incident detection, reduced alert noise, and more proactive IT operations.

What is enterprise AIOps?

Enterprise AIOps applies AI-powered operational intelligence at the scale required by large organisations — processing millions of events, correlating signals across hundreds of services, and providing root cause analysis fast enough to protect business-critical systems. NCG's Overwatch module delivers enterprise AIOps natively within the EDGE platform, combining learned baselines, anomaly detection, and intelligent alert grouping.

How does AIOps improve IT operations?

AIOps improves IT operations by reducing alert noise, accelerating root cause analysis, detecting issues before they escalate, and enabling teams to focus on high-impact problems rather than managing alert floods. By correlating signals across the full observability stack — APM, infrastructure, logs, RUM, transactions — AIOps can identify the root cause of incidents that would otherwise take hours to diagnose manually.

How can AIOps reduce incident response time?

AIOps reduces incident response time by automatically correlating related alerts into a single incident, ranking likely root causes by business impact, and surfacing relevant evidence from across the monitoring stack. What might take a team 90 minutes of manual investigation can often be reduced to minutes with AI-powered correlation and root cause analysis.

What does Edge AI Agent and Chatbot monitor?

Edge AI Agent and Chatbot captures signals including anomaly confidence score, root cause rank, playbook step status, escalation chain state, agent response time, and provides natural language automation, escalation and resolution, recommend and approve and more.

How is Edge AI Agent and Chatbot deployed?

Edge connects through lightweight agents or agentless connectors — typically 2–4 hours for a standard environment — and can be deployed on-premises, in your private cloud or in a regional cloud, so monitoring data stays within your jurisdiction.

Does it work with the monitoring tools we already use?

Yes. Edge is designed for a no-rip-and-replace approach and connects alongside your existing stack, with 100+ integrations across cloud, containers, databases, APM agents, telemetry standards and alerting channels.

How does AI connect to the rest of Edge?

AI writes its data to the Edge Datalake, so it can be queried and correlated in real time with application traces, logs, infrastructure metrics and real user data from the other Edge modules.

How is it priced?

Pricing is tailored to the scale of your environment, the modules you choose and your deployment model. Start with a short, no-obligation discovery session and NCG will prepare a scoped proposal.

More answers in the FAQ library, or book a demo to see AI on your own environment.

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