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Observability for Modern AI Stacks

Modern AI infrastructure moves fast, and without the right signals in place, small problems can spiral into major outages. Cake helps teams embed observability into every layer of their stack, using open source tools, automated setup, and centralized insight to stay ahead of failures.

 

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Overview

Most teams don’t realize they’re flying blind until something breaks. In AI environments, that might look like degraded model performance, slow inference, or stuck pipelines with no obvious root cause. Cake brings observability into focus, so you can catch and fix problems before they affect users or outcomes.

With Cake, you can deploy and scale open source observability tools across your entire stack in your own environment. Stream logs, metrics, and traces into a unified view. Monitor GPU workloads, pipelines, and agent behavior with full context. And keep everything secure, compliant, and easy to customize.

 

Key benefits

Full-stack visibility for AI infrastructure: Monitor everything from ingestion pipelines to inference endpoints in one place.

Custom instrumentation with zero boilerplate: Auto-instrument your stack using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, aNd more without extra configuration.

Keep observability data secure and private: Run everything inside your VPC with fine-grained access controls and redaction policies.

Use the open source tools your team already loves: Plug in tools like Grafana, Jaeger, and Loki without rewriting your stack.

Shorten incident response time: Trace system behavior back to the source and resolve issues before they hit production.

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Put observability to work across your stack

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Monitor LLM performance in real time

Track response latency, token usage, and context window issues across inference calls to spot degradation before users notice.

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Catch pipeline failures before they cascade

Trace bottlenecks across ingestion, transformation, and model serving to prevent data freshness issues and silent errors.

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Detect agent drift and context loss

Surface when agent behaviors change unexpectedly or start returning low-confidence responses, with full visibility into upstream signals.

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Debug GPU utilization and scaling issues

Correlate workload performance with GPU usage, autoscaling events, and memory constraints to fine-tune system behavior.

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Enable secure, auditable observability in regulated environments

Keep all observability data in your own VPC with full control over access, retention, and redaction.

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Accelerate root cause analysis across hybrid infrastructure

Unify logs, traces, and metrics from cloud, on-prem, and edge environments to reduce MTTR and eliminate guesswork.

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"Our partnership with Cake has been a clear strategic choice – we're achieving the impact of two to three technical hires with the equivalent investment of half an FTE."

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Scott Stafford
Chief Enterprise Architect at Ping

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"With Cake we are conservatively saving at least half a million dollars purely on headcount."

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InsureTech Company

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"Cake powers our complex, highly scaled AI infrastructure. Their platform accelerates our model development and deployment both on-prem and in the cloud"

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Felix Baldauf-Lenschen
CEO and Founder

Frequently

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Questions

What is observability in the context of AI infrastructure?

Observability is the ability to understand the internal state of your AI systems based on their external outputs—like logs, metrics, and traces. It helps teams detect issues, monitor performance, and debug complex pipelines across data, models, and infrastructure.

How does Cake support observability?

Can I use my own logging and monitoring tools with Cake?

Is Cake observability secure and compliant for regulated industries?

What kinds of AI workloads benefit most from observability?

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