Anomaly RCA/Watchtower

Detect Issues Before
Your Users Do

Watch Tower uses AI-powered anomaly detection to automatically identify performance issues, error spikes, and latency problems, delivering actionable insights and root cause analysis in real-time.

Anomaly service

87%

Faster Issue Detection

24/7

Automated Monitoring

60%

Reduced MTTR

Zero

Configuration Required

Advanced AI Detection Engine

Anomaly Detection That Actually Works

Unlike traditional threshold-based monitoring that creates false positives, Watch Tower uses machine learning to detect only real anomalies.

Dynamic Baseline Learning

Establishes intelligent baselines by analyzing 6+ weeks of historical data across latency, throughput, and error rates. Automatically adapts to traffic patterns and seasonal variations, eliminating manual threshold tuning.

Automated Root Cause Analysis

Analyzes service dependencies, distributed traces, and infrastructure metrics (CPU, memory, disk) to identify the actual root cause, not just symptoms. Distinguishes between dependency failures, resource exhaustion, and infrastructure issues.

Multi-Signal Impact Analysis

Correlates anomalies across latency, throughput, and failure rates to calculate the real scope of degradation. Shows which specific services, endpoints, and user segments are experiencing issues, not just vague "performance problems."

Bucket Pattern

Evaluates billions of data points in real-time across multiple time windows. Catches severe log anomalies (10+ minutes duration with significant increases) and APM degradation before user complaints arrive.

Contextual Investigation Insights

Surfaces tag-based patterns in query results to highlight outliers like a specific database shard, geographic region, or API version causing disproportionate errors. Provides suggested next steps and relevant monitors to activate.

Full-Stack Telemetry Coverage

Unified detection across APM traces, infrastructure metrics, and log streams. Single alert shows the complete picture: which microservice failed, what infrastructure resource was exhausted, and which logs captured the error, no tool-switching required.

The Process

How Watch Tower Works?

From detection to resolution, Watch Tower streamlines your incident response workflow

Trace Issues to Root Cause
Root Cause Identification

Trace Issues to Root Cause

Watch Tower connects the dots across your services, infrastructure, and logs. When an issue occurs, it shows you the exact service that failed first and why, not just that something is wrong.

  • Service dependency graph shows the failure path
  • Distributed traces pinpoint where latency started
  • Infrastructure metrics reveal what resource was exhausted
  • One view instead of jumping between tools
Find patterns you've seen before
Incident History

Find patterns you've seen before

Watch Tower keeps 6 months of detected anomalies organized by service and severity. If the same issue keeps happening, you'll spot it and fix it once and for all.

  • Browse all detected anomalies with full context
  • Filter by service, status, and time range
  • One click to see the full incident details
  • Track resolution from detection to close
Alert on what actually matters
Baselines Alerts

Alert on what actually matters

Watch Tower builds baselines from your real traffic patterns, not arbitrary numbers. It adapts to peak hours, weekly cycles, and seasonal changes, so it only alerts when something genuinely abnormal happens.

  • Baseline bounds adjust automatically over time
  • Accounts for traffic patterns and seasonality
  • 80% fewer false alarms than static thresholds
  • Learns continuously as your app evolves
Complete Coverage

Comprehensive Anomaly Detection

Watch Tower monitors every layer of your application stack

APM Anomalies

Critical

Detect performance degradation in your applications before they impact users

  • Latency spikes and slowdowns on specific transactions
  • Error rate increases across services and endpoints
  • Throughput drops indicating potential bottlenecks
  • Failure patterns in distributed service calls

Log Anomalies

Important

Surface critical issues hidden in high-volume log data

  • Severe error log patterns lasting 10+ minutes
  • Significant increases in error rates with low noise
  • Unusual log volume spikes across services
  • Critical status changes in system components

Infrastructure Issues

Warning

Catch resource exhaustion before it causes outages

  • CPU, memory, and disk usage anomalies
  • Network throughput degradation
  • Container and pod health deterioration
  • Database connection pool exhaustion

Automatic Baseline Learning

Intelligent

Establishes baselines without manual configuration

  • Learns from historical data patterns automatically
  • Adapts to traffic variations and seasonality
  • Continuous baseline refinement
  • Zero-touch setup and optimization

Real Business Impact

What Engineering Teams Actually Achieve?

Watch Tower doesn't just detect anomalies, it fundamentally changes how teams operate during incidents

Cut MTTR by 60% on Average

Stop spending hours correlating metrics, logs, and traces manually. Watch Tower's RCA shows you the exhausted database connection pool, the failing dependency, or the resource bottleneck in seconds, not hours. Teams report going from 2-hour investigations to 15-minute fixes.

Eliminate Alert Fatigue

No more waking up at 3 AM for false positives. Watch Tower learns your traffic patterns (including daily cycles, weekend dips, and promotional spikes) to alert only on genuine anomalies. Teams reduce alert volume by 80% while catching 100% of critical issues.

Know Exactly Who's Affected

Impact Analysis tells you if 5 users or 5,000 are experiencing the issue, which geographic regions are affected, and whether it's isolated to specific API versions or customer segments. Prioritize fixes based on actual business impact, not just metric severity.

Detect Performance Issues Instantly

Watch Tower detects when your application's performance degrades, error rates spike, or infrastructure resources become exhausted. Get alerted within the analysis bucket window, preventing major incidents before they impact your users.

Reduce Mean Time To Detection

Watch Tower analyzes application behavior continuously within its analysis windows, catching issues as soon as they occur. By reducing detection latency and providing immediate RCA, teams can respond to incidents faster and prevent user-facing impact.

Zero Operational Overhead

No ML models to train, no baselines to configure, no thresholds to tune. Watch Tower works out of the box on day one. Requires only 24 hours minimum data (optimal with 6 weeks) and automatically improves as it learns your application patterns.

Everything you need to know about Watchtower