Gaurav Toshniwal
Co-founder and CEO of Sherlocks.ai. A former CTO who spent years owning on-call rotations and incident response, Gaurav writes about reducing MTTR, cutting alert noise, and what it actually takes to run reliable systems.
Posts by Gaurav Toshniwal

June 2, 2026
IT Ops vs DevOps vs SRE vs Agentic Ops: A Visual Guide
How IT Ops, DevOps, SRE, and Agentic Ops differ, overlap, and evolved. A plain-language, graphical guide anyone can follow, from engineers to business leaders.

May 19, 2026
The Four Pillars of Telemetry: Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Events
What are the four pillars of telemetry? Metrics tell you what. Logs tell you when. Traces tell you where. Events tell you why. A framework for faster MTTR.

May 12, 2026
How CTOs lose touch with production
How CTOs lose touch with production and how to fix it. Discover the Production Reality Loop and 6 high-impact leadership habits.

April 29, 2026
How Complex Systems Fail: An SRE Perspective
Richard Cook's 18 observations on complex system failure, paired line by line with the SRE translation. Medicine and aviation on the left, distributed systems on the right.

April 6, 2026
How to Reduce Alert Noise by 90% Without Missing Real Incidents
Stop treating alert tuning as an art. Learn a mathematical framework to quantify and reduce your alert noise by 90% while maintaining strict bounds on missed incidents.

March 14, 2026
Vibe SRE vs Agentic SRE: What Karpathy's Coding Taxonomy Teaches Us About Incident Response
Most teams doing 'AI SRE' are actually doing Vibe SRE — pasting alerts into ChatGPT with no context or guardrails. Learn the difference between Vibe SRE and Agentic SRE, mapped from Karpathy's vibe coding vs agentic engineering taxonomy.

March 19, 2026
“AI for SRE is Real”: Why SpeakX.ai CTO Trusts Sherlocks.ai
See how SpeakX CTO Deepank Agarwal uses Sherlocks.ai to investigate complex LLM outages and 429 errors in minutes, moving from manual logs to automated RCA.

February 4, 2026
How to Reduce MTTR in 2026: From Alert to Root Cause in Minutes
A practical guide to reducing MTTR in 2026, covering SLO-based alerting, incident context, automation, and AI-powered root cause investigation.

January 20, 2026
Sherlocks.ai Investigations Across Kubernetes and APM Alerts
Watch Sherlocks.ai investigate a real Kubernetes pod crash and APM latency spike in under 3 minutes. See how AI correlates K8s events, metrics, and code deploys to pinpoint the root cause.

February 2, 2026
Top 8 AI SRE Tools in 2026 — Compared
Compare the top 8 AI SRE tools for 2026 — Sherlocks.ai, Resolve.ai, Traversal, Datadog Bits AI, Rootly & Agent0. See accuracy ratings, MTTR reduction benchmarks, and which AI-native platform scales best.

January 17, 2026
PagerDuty vs New Relic vs Datadog vs Sherlocks.ai: AI SRE Platform Comparison
PagerDuty vs New Relic vs Datadog BITS AI vs Sherlocks.ai — tested on the same production incident. See which platform found the root cause fastest and how each handles alert triage, RCA, and remediation.

January 13, 2026
What Even is SRE? (and Why's AI a Big Deal Here?)
What do Site Reliability Engineers actually do? A no-jargon explainer covering SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations, and why AI is the biggest shift in SRE since Google coined the term.

January 13, 2026
Being An SRE is Nothing Short of Chaotic
Alert storms at 2 AM, context scattered across 8 tools, and runbooks that are always outdated. A candid look at why SRE is chaotic and how AI agents are finally taming the complexity.

January 14, 2026
99% Accurate AI SRE ? Still Not Good Enough
Can an AI SRE agent with 99% accuracy help your team achieve 99.99% uptime? This analysis quantifies the real impact of AI on incident response, downtime reduction, and what it truly takes to reach elite reliability targets.

January 13, 2026
kubectl-ai: Talk to Your Cluster in Plain English
Google's kubectl-ai lets you talk to your Kubernetes cluster in plain English. We tested it on real incident scenarios: here is what works, what breaks, and how it compares to full AI SRE platforms.

January 13, 2026
From kubectl-ai to Warp AI Agents - Super-Charging Incident RCAs
From kubectl-ai to Warp AI: a hands-on look at the new generation of AI-powered terminal tools for SREs. How they speed up incident investigation and where they fall short vs. purpose-built AI SRE platforms.

January 13, 2026
No More Downtime: Sherlocks.ai Brings AI to Site Reliability
SRE keeps the lights on, but at what cost? 3 AM pages, alert fatigue, and knowledge silos burn out your best engineers. See how AI SREs are changing the economics of reliability.