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Hey HN! We are Bharath, and Simranjit from Relvy AI (https://www.relvy.ai). Relvy automates on-call runbooks for software engineering teams. It is an AI agent equipped with tools that can analyze telemetry data and code at scale, helping teams debug and resolve production issues in minutes. Here’s a video: [[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXr4_XlWXc0]]]
A lot of teams are using AI in some form to reduce their on-call burden. You may be pasting logs into Cursor, or using Claude Code with Datadog’s MCP server to help debug. What we’ve seen is that autonomous root cause analysis is a hard problem for AI. This shows up in benchmarks - Claude Opus 4.6 is currently at 36% accuracy on the OpenRCA dataset, in contrast to coding tasks.
There are three main reasons for this: (1) Telemetry data volume can drown the model in noise; (2) Data interpretation / reasoning is enterprise context dependent; (3) On-call is a time-constrained, high-stakes problem, with little room for AI to explore during investigation time. Errors that send the user down the wrong path are not easily forgiven.
At Relvy, we are tackling these problems by building specialized tools for telemetry data analysis. Our tools can detect anomalies and identify problem slices from dense time series data, do log pattern search, and reason about span trees, all without overwhelming the agent context.
Anchoring the agent around runbooks leads to less agentic exploration and more deterministic steps that reflect the most useful steps that an experienced engineer would take. That results in faster analysis, and less cognitive load on engineers to review and understand what the AI did.
How it works: Relvy is installed on a local machine via docker-compose (or via helm charts, or sign up on our cloud), connect your stack (observability and code), create your first runbook and have Relvy investigate a recent alert.
Each investigation is presented as a notebook in our web UI, with data visualizations that help engineers verify and build trust with the AI. From there on, Relvy can be configured to automatically respond to alerts from Slack
Some example runbook steps that Relvy automates: - Check so-and-so dashboard, see if the errors are isolated to a specific shard. - Check if there’s a throughput surge on the APM page, and if so, is it from a few IPs? - Check recent commits to see if anything changed for this endpoint.
You can also configure AWS CLI commands that Relvy can run to automate mitigation actions, with human approval.
A little bit about us - We did YC back in fall 2024. We started our journey experimenting with continuous log monitoring with small language models - that was too slow. We then invested deeply into solving root cause analysis effectively, and our product today is the result of about a year of work with our early customers.
Give us a try today. Happy to hear feedback, or about how you are tackling on-call burden at your company. Appreciate any comments or suggestions!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702647
Points: 5
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Pronto's autonomous haulage trucks are about to start operating at Mariana Minerals's Utah copper mine -- the first such deal since Pronto got acquired by Travis Kalanick's Atoms Inc.
Hi HN! I've just released CSS Studio, a design tool that lives on your site, runs on your browser, sends updates to your existing AI agent, which edits any codebase. You can actually play around with the latest version directly on the site.
Technically, the way this works is you view your site in dev mode and start editing it. In your agent, you can run /studio which then polls (or uses Claude Channels) an MCP server. Changes are streamed as JSON via the MCP, along with some viewport and URL information, and the skill has some instructions on how best to implement them.
It contains a lot of the tools you'd expect from a visual editing tool, like text editing, styles and an animation timeline editor.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702196
Points: 21
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Amflow, the e-bike brand spun out of DJI, is back with two impressive electric mountain bike ranges built around its incredibly dense Avinox motors. The e-MTBs aim to break the traditional tradeoff between power, range, and weight. Even better, if Amflow's bikes don't appeal to you then over 60 other e-bike makers have adopted Avinox […]
This tracker attaches to your pet’s collar to monitor location and activity, charting trends over time to better understand your pet’s health.
In Seattle, activists inside tech giants are leaning into grassroots fundraising and peer support as petitions and protests draw little response from executives.
YouTube Shorts is rolling out a new AI-powered feature giving creators an easy way to realistically clone themselves on camera. The launch, hinted at earlier this year, reflects the platform's fraught relationship with AI-generated content, adding more generative features while struggling to contain AI slop, deepfake scams, and impersonations. YouTube says the new tool will […]
Spotify is adding new toggles to stop any and all video from playing inside the app, for both music and podcasts. The controls are rolling out worldwide, work across all platforms and devices, and can be used by managers of Family Plans to limit video content for every member on the subscription. The new controls […]
Brandon Riegg tells WIRED he empathizes with the struggle to find “quality men” and that Love Is Blind has no MAGA agenda.