The sense-think-act model, originally used in robotics and self-driving cars, is increasingly being applied to IT operations through AIOps and observability to manage the complexity of cloud-native technologies. This approach enables IT teams to automatically detect, analyze, and respond to issues within multicloud environments, addressing challenges such as system performance, security risks, and application problems. By leveraging observability to "sense" data from user experience and infrastructure health, artificial intelligence to "think" and analyze this data for actionable insights, and AIOps to "act" by automating responses to anomalies, organizations can enhance decision-making, streamline operations, and mitigate risks. Dynatrace exemplifies this model by providing end-to-end observability and AI-driven automation to manage complex multicloud workloads, thereby enabling self-driving IT operations and reducing the need for manual interventions in problem-solving and system maintenance.