Observability in Foundry Control Plane
Optimize and scale AI apps and agents with end-to-end monitoring, tracing, and evaluation.
Overview
Accelerate AI development from pilot to production
- Rapidly prototype and debug with auto-generated test datasets, built-in recommended evaluators, seamless continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), end-to-end tracing, and vulnerability detection with AI red teaming.
- Uncover issues before they impact operations using unified dashboards, live traffic monitoring, and end-to-end multi-agent tracing to proactively detect drift and regressions.
- Optimize agent cost and performance with curated model upgrade experience and actionable monitoring and evaluation insights.
- Get unified observability metrics, alerts, and governance for your agents’ fleet in one view, including compliance monitoring, scoped policies, guardrails, and bulk remediation.
Features
Boost AI performance, reliability, and safety
Continuous evaluation
Automatically assess and improve agent performance at every development stage with confidence-backed metrics and statistical validation.
Live monitoring
Track agent performance with real-time metrics, alerts, and drift detection, preventing issues before they impact users.
End-to-end tracing
Get comprehensive end-to-end tracing visibility across tools and single and multi-agent systems by leveraging OpenTelemetry (OTeL).
Unified dashboard
View AI agent health, performance, and usage across development and production environments using a single, actionable interface.
Governance tools
Enable responsible AI practices and transparency at scale with built-in tools for traceability, compliance, and audit readiness.
AI Red Teaming Agent
Uncover AI system vulnerabilities before deployment with simulated attacks, automated scanning, and readiness reports.
Model leaderboards
Quickly identify top-performing models and compare agent performance side-by-side to make smarter deployment decisions.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Pricing
Observability in Foundry Control Plane pricing
AI-assisted evaluations are priced at:
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Observability in Foundry Control Plane is a suite of capabilities providing real-time insights into AI systems, enabling continuous evaluation and monitoring. It helps ensure transparency and governance for AI applications.
- Observability in Foundry Control Plane offers benefits like accelerating the transition from pilot to production, enabling rapid iteration, and providing real-time insights for scaling AI applications. It ensures transparency and governance for AI systems, essential for responsible AI practices.
- Observability in Foundry Control Plane is available in multiple regions worldwide, ensuring access to its features globally.
- Learning to use Observability in Foundry Control Plane can be done through various resources available on the Azure platform. Detailed documentation and tutorials are accessible on Microsoft Learn. These resources provide comprehensive guidance on getting started and mastering the features of Observability in Foundry Control Plane.
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