cortexYour infrastructure
learns to heal itself
Cortex observes your Kubernetes clusters, builds persistent memory of every incident, earns trust through demonstrated competence, and progressively reduces human intervention until your infrastructure operates itself.
The problem
Why Cortex?
3 AM pages shouldn't be normal
Your team spends nights firefighting the same incidents that already have known fixes. Cortex remembers and applies them automatically.
Alert fatigue kills reliability
When everything alerts, nothing does. Cortex correlates cascading failures to one root cause and remediates at the source.
Manual fixes don't compound
Every time a human resolves an incident, that knowledge walks out the door. Cortex builds persistent memory that compounds over time.
Trust should be earned, not toggled
Other tools ask you to flip a switch between advisory and autonomous. Cortex earns autonomy mathematically — one successful action at a time.
Architecture
Six layers. One brain.
Each layer feeds the next. The system gets smarter with every incident it handles.
Observe
Continuous K8s API + eBPF kernel-level signal ingestion across 30+ resource types. Zero LLM involvement.
Remember
Persistent temporal knowledge graph stores every incident, diagnosis, action, and outcome with causal linkage.
Decide
Known patterns handled deterministically. Novel situations reasoned by LLM. The boundary is managed automatically.
Act Safely
Graduated remediation ladders: least invasive first, evaluate, escalate. Pre-flight, dry-run, health gates, auto-rollback.
Earn Trust
Bayesian Trust Score per action type, per environment. Failures penalize 3x more than successes build. Trust is earned, not configured.
Learn
Outcome tracking updates trust. Patterns graduate from LLM to deterministic over time. Self-calibrating.
Quantified Trust Score
Trust is earned, not configured
Powered by a patentable in-house scoring engine that learns the behavior of your infrastructure and earns autonomy mathematically — one successful action at a time.
Detect + inform. No cluster actions.
Propose action + dry-run. Human approves via Slack.
Auto-execute within policy bounds. Health gates + rollback.
Preemptive action on predicted failures.
Patentable HDLBP Algorithm
Our Hybrid Deterministic-LLM Boundary Protocol routes decisions between a rule engine and LLM based on novelty scoring. Known patterns resolve in <100ms. Novel situations get full LLM reasoning with safety validation.
eBPF Kernel-Level Probes
Cortex agents leverage eBPF to intercept syscalls, TCP retransmits, and memory pressure signals 30-120 seconds before Kubernetes API surfaces the failure. Pre-failure detection at the kernel level.
Self-Calibrating Learning Model
Bayesian Beta distributions with Wilson score intervals, time-decayed observations, and asymmetric penalty factors. The system tracks its own Brier score — it knows when it's overconfident and adjusts.
Detection Engine
51 failure modes. Zero blind spots.
Every K8s failure surface covered — container runtime, workload controllers, networking, storage, config, admission, Istio, and Traefik.
9
CrashLoop, OOMKilled, ImagePull, Eviction
5
Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet, Job, CronJob
4
Service routing, DNS, IP exhaustion, Ingress
2
PVC pending, volume attachment
6
CPU throttling, HPA, quotas, probes
3
Webhooks, RBAC, PDB
14
Sidecar, mTLS, routing, circuit breaker
5
IngressRoute, TLS, middleware, backends
Phase 1: 32 core K8s rules. Phase 2: +13 Istio & Traefik. Phase 3: +6 predictive.
The Cortex Pipeline
From incident to resolution. Autonomously.
Every incident flows through this pipeline. Drag the nodes to explore the architecture.
K8s Watchers + eBPF
30+ resource types, kernel-level syscall tracing
Memory Engine
Temporal knowledge graph, incident-outcome linkage
HDLBP Router
Novelty scoring — deterministic or LLM path
Remediation Ladder
Graduated steps, health gates, auto-rollback
Trust Scoring
Bayesian Beta distribution, Wilson lower bound
Drag nodes to explore
Building great things takes time.
Cortex is in active development. The decision engine, trust scoring, and remediation ladder are being built with the same rigor we apply to the infrastructure it will heal.
Pricing
Start free. Scale with trust.
Every tier includes full detection. Pay for depth of analysis and autonomy level.
Guardian
Start monitoring. Zero risk.
- 1 cluster, 20 nodes
- 32 deterministic detection rules
- Slack alerts
- Level 0 — advisory only
- 7-day event retention
Sentinel
Deep analysis. Human-gated action.
- Unlimited nodes per cluster
- 51 detection rules + LLM RCA
- Human-gated remediation (Level 0-1)
- Trust Score dashboard
- 30-day event retention
- Slack interactive approvals
Autonomous
Earned autonomy. eBPF pre-failure detection.
- Everything in Sentinel
- Auto-execution (Level 0-2)
- eBPF kernel-level probes
- Predictive failure detection
- Remediation ladder engine
- 90-day event retention
Enterprise
Full autonomous. Multi-cluster fleet.
- Everything in Autonomous
- Level 0-3 + predictive auto
- Cross-tenant pattern sharing (CTAPS)
- SSO/SAML, audit compliance
- Multi-cluster fleet intelligence
- Unlimited retention
- Dedicated support + SLA
Stop firefighting.
Start healing.
Cortex deploys as a lightweight agent in your cluster. No code changes. No vendor lock-in. Start with Level 0 advisory and let trust build from there.