June 2026 Summaries

Rocky AI, an agent developed by Checkly, enhances incident response by integrating OpenTelemetry (OTEL) traces into its workflow, allowing for efficient root cause analysis of infrastructure alerts. When a check fails, Rocky automates the process of analyzing OTEL traces to pinpoint the cause of the failure, such as infrastructure errors or issues with downstream dependencies, and delivers this information through existing alert channels like Slack or PagerDuty. This integration eliminates the need for manual correlation of logs and traces, enabling agents to quickly identify and communicate the root cause, user impact, and suggested fixes. By leveraging OTEL traces, Rocky AI transforms the incident management process, allowing human operators to focus on validating fixes rather than manually investigating issues, and optimizing the response time and accuracy of troubleshooting efforts.