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Observability & Contextual Unified Activity Records

Most logging fails because it optimizes for writing and punishes querying. Surveilr shifts telemetry to 'Contextual Unified Activity Records' — one rich, context-packed event per request per service hop. Store locally, query with SQL, and stop the frustrating manual log searches. Because these records contain full business context in a structured format, they're immediately usable by AI systems for analysis, pattern detection, and automated insights.

Key Benefits

  • Replace manual searching with simple database queries for debugging
  • AI-ready structured data enables automated analysis and insights
  • Cost control via intelligent tail sampling
  • Privacy-first edge processing and redaction
  • Cross-system correlation (deploys, flags, incidents)

Use Cases

  • Production incident debugging and RCA
  • AI-powered anomaly detection and root cause analysis
  • SLO analytics and performance monitoring
  • Feature flag rollout observability
  • VIP user experience tracking

Core Features

Contextual record emission

Tail sampling

Cross-service correlation

AI-ready data structure