Researching production log analysis & RCA — looking for engineer feedback

Hi everyone,

I'm doing some early market research around production troubleshooting and log analysis and would really appreciate feedback from people who actually deal with production systems.

I'm exploring a tool where engineers could interact with their logs using natural language, investigate production incidents, correlate events across different systems, perform RCA, and generate custom analysis/visualizations from historical log data.

Before building this further, I want to understand the actual problems engineers face today — how they investigate incidents, where existing tools fall short, how much time RCA takes, and whether this is a problem worth solving.

I've made a short 2–3 minute anonymous survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbJt7moEOhZR9Xr8HXbKu5Y0F2Ep0Yv5xPFQlohKbH63r6Dg/viewform?usp=publish-editor

If you work with SRE, DevOps, infrastructure, backend, Kubernetes, networking, observability, or production operations, your experience would be especially valuable.

I'm looking for honest feedback, including negative feedback. I'm trying to validate the problem, not just validate my idea.

Thanks!

Sydney Kubernetes folks,

If you're interested in Kubernetes, AI agents, or platform engineering, CNCF Cloud Native Sydney is hosting a meetup on August 19:

Running AI Agents and Building Platforms on Kubernetes

Two open source projects will be covered:

kagent — a Kubernetes-native framework for building, deploying, and managing AI agents.

GitHub: https://github.com/kagent-dev/kagent

OpenChoreo — an open source developer platform for Kubernetes, bringing together platform abstractions, Backstage, CI/CD, GitOps, and observability.

GitHub: https://github.com/openchoreo/openchoreo

Cuscal Limited, Barangaroo, Sydney
Wednesday, August 19
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM AEST

Free entry, food and drinks, networking, and live Q&A with the maintainers.

If you're working with Kubernetes, DevOps, SRE, AI infrastructure, or platform engineering in Sydney, come join us.

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/cncf-sydney/events/316052564/

See you there!