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How We Debug 1000s of Databases with AI: Lessons from an AI-Assisted Database Debugging Platform
Annie Zhou and Sophie Zhang, Databricks
Engineers can now vibe-code with AI, so why aren’t we vibe-debugging yet? At Databricks, we built an AI-assisted debugging system that helps engineers reason about thousands of databases across multiple clouds. It consolidates metrics, logs, and system signals, explains anomalies, and recommends safe next steps – reducing investigation time by up to 90%.
In this talk, we will discuss how to build AI agents that are reliable in production, how to design the platform foundation that makes them safe, and how to drive adoption through fast iteration and user-centered design. Attendees will leave with concrete patterns for reducing incident toil and scaling SRE workflows with AI.
View the full SREcon26 Americas program at usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/program
How We Debug 1000s of Databases with AI: Lessons from an AI-Assisted Database Debugging Platform
Annie Zhou and Sophie Zhang, Databricks
Engineers can now vibe-code with AI, so why aren’t we vibe-debugging yet? At Databricks, we built an AI-assisted debugging system that helps engineers reason about thousands of databases across multiple clouds. It consolidates metrics, logs, and system signals, explains anomalies, and recommends safe next steps – reducing investigation time by up to 90%.
In this talk, we will discuss how to build AI agents that are reliable in production, how to design the platform foundation that makes them safe, and how to drive adoption through fast iteration and user-centered design. Attendees will leave with concrete patterns for reducing incident toil and scaling SRE workflows with AI.
View the full SREcon26 Americas program at usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/program
