How Causely and Google Gemini Are Powering Autonomous Reliability

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As systems scale and interactions multiply, reliability can’t be assured through dashboards and alerts. When hundreds of interdependent services rely on managed components, asynchronous communication, and shared databases, engineers spend valuable hours chasing symptoms because they lack a system that infers causality across dependencies.

Causely addresses this gap through its Causal Reasoning Engine, which models how dependencies interact in real time and accurately determines the cause of observed service latency and errors. By inferring the cause of performance degradation and understanding the affected dependencies, Causely enables automated actions to assure performance.

Now, through a new collaboration with Google Gemini, engineering teams can act on those insights faster and more intuitively.

Why We Started with Gemini

Reliability engineering depends on both accuracy and trust. LLMs excel at interpreting vast, unstructured data, but without a principled understanding of cause and effect, their outputs are prone to hallucination.

Causely provides that missing foundation. Its Causal Reasoning Engine models how services, dependencies, and resources interact. These causal models provide deterministic truth about the causes of performance anomalies, and their blast radius. LLMs build on this foundation by translating the results of this causal inference into natural language explanations and action plans that help teams act with confidence. The result is a real-time, closed loop between insight and action.

We chose Gemini because of its contextual reasoning, enterprise-grade security, and deep integration with Google Cloud workloads. Gemini’s ability to interpret natural language, generate structured code, and summarize technical context complements Causely’s deterministic causal inference engine, turning complex telemetry into clear and reliable insights.

How Causely Uses Gemini to Enhance Autonomous Reliability

While Causely remains interoperable with any LLM that a customer wishes to use, we’ve integrated Gemini into Causely for two new features that make interacting with our Causal Reasoning Engine more intuitive and powerful.

Ask Causely

Ask Causely empowers users to ask complex questions about their environment, check service health, and identify both existing root causes and potential failure points. Ask Causely leverages Gemini’s natural language understanding and generation capabilities to deliver a conversational and seamless experience. It uses multiple Gemini models and takes advantage of Gemini’s generative features to provide a white-glove reliability experience.

Ask Causely leverages Gemini's natural language understanding and generation capabilities.

Gemini is integrated into several stages of the Ask Causely pipeline, offering a high degree of flexibility, control, and integration within Causely’s autonomous reliability framework. To ensure timely and accurate results, Causely uses low-latency Gemini models to support data-intensive operations such as log summarization, entity extraction, and contextual signal analysis across diverse telemetry sources.

Key aspects of the integration include:

Adaptive Model Selection: Causely strategically deploys low-latency Gemini models to ensure quick responses while using higher-capability reasoning models to convert Causely’s causal diagnoses into clear, actionable remediations.
Grounded search for reliable knowledge: Ask Causely uses Gemini’s grounded search capability to deliver accurate, context-aware remediations based on trusted external sources such as vendor documentation, Stack Overflow, and GitHub.
Tool calling and code generation for live system intelligence : Ask Causely uses Gemini’s tool calling and code generation to query live services, interpret telemetry, and surface insights from Causely’s causal engine on identified symptoms and root causes.
Code generation for automation: Gemini’s code generation enables Causely’s Code Agents to analyze time series and topology data, generate diagnostic workflows, automate remediations, and perform dynamic analysis during active incidents.
Entity recognition: Gemini’s strong entity recognition helps Causely rapidly locate and correlate critical services, nodes, and components within complex environments.
Embeddings for enterprise grounding: Gemini embeddings enable Causely to integrate internal documentation and historical incidents to deliver organization-aware, contextually grounded insights.
Interpretable causal insights: Gemini translates Causely’s causal signal extraction from unstructured telemetry into clear, human-readable explanations and actionable remediations.

Causal Explanation and Remediation

Causely uses Gemini to generate SLO-aware, application-specific explanations and actionable remediations grounded in verified causal data and analysis. Causely infers the precise cause of observed anomalies and gathers the most relevant logs and events from across the environment to enable automated action. Gemini then contextualizes this evidence with Causely’s live causal graph to produce coherent, human/machine-readable descriptions and remediations that reflect the underlying issue, its operational impact, and suggested remediation steps

Supporting features include:

Log and event contextualization: Gemini interprets logs and events selected by Causely’s reasoning engine, connecting raw telemetry to observed symptoms and their SLO implications.
Causal-grounded remediation actions: Recommendations are based on observed symptoms and tailored to the affected application or service context.
Automated post-incident summaries: Gemini compiles structured summaries that capture causal explanations, operational impact, and applied remediations, ensuring consistency and traceability across incidents.

Open and Flexible

We started with Gemini as an initial and foundational proof point. But our platform was built to be multi-cloud and model-agnostic. Causely runs across public clouds or on-prem environments, and we’ll continue to develop integrations with other large language models, giving customers flexibility without lock-in. If you have a particular model and use case in mind, please contact us!

The Future: From Reactive to Autonomous Reliability

Causely and Google Gemini together mark a step toward autonomous service reliability, where systems can understand, explain, and prevent issues before users are affected. This shift moves reliability from reactive firefighting to proactive, explainable prevention.