AI SRE needs better observability, not bigger models

AI SRE needs better observability, not bigger models(clickhouse.com)

10 points by manveerc 137 days ago | 2 comments

briefrrapp 137 days ago |

You mentioned using ClickHouse to store 'soft context' like Slack threads and postmortems alongside hard telemetry. Are you suggesting storing these as vectorized embeddings directly in ClickHouse using their Vector Search capabilities, or keeping them as raw text and letting the LLM parse them via SQL?

manveerc 137 days ago | |

Thats a good question. I would recommend MCP for the bulk of 'chatty' soft data to keep the database clean. However, you should selectively ingest 'high value' data into ClickHouse for vector search.

For e.g. you wouldn't ingest every 'good morning' message. But once an incident is resolved, you could ETL specific threads (filtering out noise) and the resulting RCA into ClickHouse as a vectorized document. That way, the copilot can recall the solution 6 months later without depending on Slack.