How is cloud observability different from monitoring?
Monitoring tells you when something is wrong. Observability tells you why. A monitoring tool might alert you that your API response time has spiked above a defined threshold. A cloud observability platform correlates that alert with the trace showing which downstream service introduced the latency, the logs from that service at the time of the spike, and the profiling data showing whether a memory leak or CPU contention was the root cause. The combination of metrics, logs, traces, and profiles makes observability significantly more actionable than monitoring alone.
What is DuploCloud's Advanced Observability Suite?
The Advanced Observability Suite (AOS) is DuploCloud's complete cloud observability platform, built on OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, and OpenSearch. It provides application performance monitoring, distributed tracing, log aggregation, continuous profiling, real-time anomaly detection, and AI-assisted root cause analysis, all fully self-hosted inside your cloud environment. AOS is designed for teams that want enterprise-grade observability without vendor lock-in or usage-based pricing that scales against them.
What is hybrid cloud observability?
Hybrid cloud observability refers to the ability to collect, correlate, and analyze telemetry data from workloads running across a combination of cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, alongside on-premises infrastructure. A hybrid cloud observability platform normalizes signals from every environment into a unified view so engineering teams do not need to switch between separate dashboards or duplicate their observability setup per provider. DuploCloud uses OpenTelemetry's vendor-neutral standard to deliver this unified telemetry layer across any combination of environments.
Does DuploCloud support auto-instrumentation?
Yes. DuploCloud uses Grafana Beyla, an eBPF-based auto-instrumentation tool, to capture key metrics and trace spans automatically for applications written in Go, Python, Java, Node.js, .NET, Ruby, Rust, and C/C++. For distributed tracing and detailed spans, DuploCloud also integrates the Kubernetes OpenTelemetry Operator, which enables auto-instrumentation based on pod annotations. Teams that prefer manual instrumentation can push custom metrics via the OTLP protocol directly to DuploCloud's collector pipeline.
Can I use DuploCloud's observability tools alongside my existing monitoring stack?
Yes. DuploCloud's observability stack is built on open standards and integrates with the tools most engineering teams already use. If you're running Datadog, Prometheus, or CloudWatch alongside DuploCloud, you can continue using those for specific use cases while adopting AOS for full-stack telemetry. DuploCloud also integrates with Grafana-compatible data sources, Splunk, and custom OTLP-compatible endpoints. The platform's open API supports custom integrations for tools not covered out of the box, so adoption is incremental rather than a full replacement.
How quickly can we deploy DuploCloud's cloud observability platform?
DuploCloud's AOS can be deployed alongside a new cloud environment in hours, not weeks. Auto-instrumentation via Grafana Beyla reduces time to coverage significantly because teams do not need to manually instrument each service. Full configuration, including custom dashboards, alerting rules, and AI agent integration, typically takes days rather than the months required to build equivalent observability manually. DuploCloud's onboarding team supports the setup process to accelerate time to value from day one.
Does DuploCloud combine observability with the rest of DevOps: provisioning, CI/CD, and compliance?
Yes. Observability is one part of DuploCloud's broader Agentic DevOps Platform, which also handles infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipeline execution, Kubernetes deployment, just-in-time access, and continuous compliance checks (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, HITRUST) in a single system. Rather than stitching together separate tools for provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and compliance, teams get one platform where telemetry from AOS feeds directly into the same AI DevOps Engineers that manage the rest of the infrastructure lifecycle.