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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

IT Ops vs DevOps vs SRE vs Agentic Ops: A Visual Guide
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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.

The Four Pillars of Telemetry: Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Events
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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.

How CTOs lose touch with production
PerformanceReliabilityCTOs

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.

How Complex Systems Fail: An SRE Perspective
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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.

How to Reduce Alert Noise by 90% Without Missing Real Incidents
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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.

Vibe SRE vs Agentic SRE: What Karpathy's Coding Taxonomy Teaches Us About Incident Response
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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.

“AI for SRE is Real”: Why SpeakX.ai CTO Trusts Sherlocks.ai
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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.

How to Reduce MTTR in 2026: From Alert to Root Cause in Minutes
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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.

Sherlocks.ai Investigations Across Kubernetes and APM Alerts
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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.

Top 8 AI SRE Tools in 2026 — Compared
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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.

PagerDuty vs New Relic vs Datadog vs Sherlocks.ai: AI SRE Platform Comparison
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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.

What Even is SRE? (and Why's AI a Big Deal Here?)
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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.

Being An SRE is Nothing Short of Chaotic
SREAutomationDevOps

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.

99% Accurate AI SRE ? Still Not Good Enough
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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.

kubectl-ai: Talk to Your Cluster in Plain English

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.

From kubectl-ai to Warp AI Agents - Super-Charging Incident RCAs

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.

No More Downtime: Sherlocks.ai  Brings AI to Site Reliability
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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.