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Research

Findings we make public

June 18, 2026 · Study

Clustering and noise reduction

How Drain3 streaming template mining compares to Sentry fingerprinting across 11 production environments.

Study · Error Clustering
10.9×
median issue reduction
95.5%
fewer issues to triage
Across 11 production environments
May 27, 2026 · Study

Structural gaps in error monitoring: evidence from production systems

Evidence, causes, and a path forward for grouping, prioritization, configuration decay, alert noise, and AI-generated fixes.

Study · Error Monitoring
01Clustering & duplicates
02Error prioritization
03Configuration decay
04Alert noise
05AI-generated fixes
May 11, 2026 · Study

Marginal tool utility in agentic debugging

Marginal tool utility and tool efficiency measure whether individual tool calls improve an agent’s probability of solving the task. Removing noisy tools preserved accuracy while doubling efficiency.

Finding · Tool Efficiency
Marginal tool utility signs across default APEX-SWE Observability trajectories by GPT-5.3-Codex.
April 4, 2026 · Study

Root cause accuracy from observability data

A benchmark for the question every debugging agent should answer: what caused the production failure? Evaluated on root cause analysis from telemetry, not log summarization.

Benchmark · Root Cause Accuracy
Root cause accuracy: Cursor plus Sentry at 41%, Cursor plus Foam at 64%, Foam at 86%.