Eye on A.I. · Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Paul Appleby, CEO of Virtana, explains that true observability for AI factories is challenging due to the complexity of the entire system, from data pipelines to orchestration and infrastructure. He highlights that many current solutions only offer partial telemetry, making it hard to pinpoint issues.
“Um, what we've done more recently, of course, is lean in heavily to, you know, a lot of generative capabilities, you know, to support automating a lot of these IT operations.”
“But the other thing that we've done is recognize that as companies scale out, you know, the the true industrialization of AI with massive AI data center investments that the market loves to call AI factories.”
“Um, is build full end-to-end observability for the AI factory.”
“And, you know, what, uh, you know, what exists for many companies today, you know, are, you know, bits of telemetry out of each level of the stack that they're trying to stitch together to identify, hey, what's really going on and how do we actually better manage this environment.”