When the Stack Lies: Finding Root Cause in Distributed Systems

As modern applications become increasingly distributed across hybrid environments, microservices, and AI-driven systems, finding root cause has never been more complex—or more critical.

In this session, Virtana CMO Daniel Raskin and Director of Product Management David McNerney explore how the shift to distribute, AI-powered architectures is fundamentally changing the role of SREs and the way organizations approach observability. They highlight a growing gap between executive urgency to scale AI and the operational reality teams face with fragmented tools and limited visibility.

Through a live demonstration, the discussion shows how siloed monitoring leads to symptoms without answers—and how a system-aware, full-stack observability approach enables teams to move from detection to true root cause faster. By correlating application behavior with infrastructure, services, and AI workloads, organizations can reduce MTTR, eliminate war rooms, and operate with greater confidence at scale.

Watch to learn why observability must evolve beyond isolated tools—and how unified, system-level visibility is essential to successfully run and scale modern, AI-driven applications.