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.







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.
EXAMPLE USE CASES
Put observability to work across your stack
Monitor LLM performance in real time
Track response latency, token usage, and context window issues across inference calls to spot degradation before users notice.
Catch pipeline failures before they cascade
Trace bottlenecks across ingestion, transformation, and model serving to prevent data freshness issues and silent errors.
Detect agent drift and context loss
Surface when agent behaviors change unexpectedly or start returning low-confidence responses, with full visibility into upstream signals.
Debug GPU utilization and scaling issues
Correlate workload performance with GPU usage, autoscaling events, and memory constraints to fine-tune system behavior.
Enable secure, auditable observability in regulated environments
Keep all observability data in your own VPC with full control over access, retention, and redaction.
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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Scott Stafford
Chief Enterprise Architect at Ping
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Frequently
Asked
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?
Cake makes it easy to deploy and scale observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry. These tools can be automatically instrumented and run inside your environment, giving you full visibility and control.
Can I use my own logging and monitoring tools with Cake?
Yes. Cake is built for composability and integrates seamlessly with popular open source tools. You can bring your existing logging, metrics, and tracing stack and Cake will handle the orchestration and scaling.
Is Cake observability secure and compliant for regulated industries?
Absolutely. Observability tools can be deployed within your private cloud or on-prem infrastructure. You maintain full control over log retention, access policies, and redaction—making it suitable for finance, healthcare, and other regulated sectors.
What kinds of AI workloads benefit most from observability?
Observability is essential for any AI workload running in production. This includes model inference, agent orchestration, vector search pipelines, and data ingestion workflows. With Cake, you can monitor them all in one place.
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