Like Cursor, but for SREs

If you’re a software engineer, Cursor needs no introduction. It is reshaping how we write, test, debug, and ship code.

Cursor was built for developers from the ground up. It indexes entire codebases, generates functions, refactors modules, and writes tests with minimal hand-holding. Its deep context-awareness is what makes it feel less like a tool and more like a teammate.

But what about the “other side” of the engineering org? The Site Reliability Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Platform Engineers, and Engineers who are on-call to keep production code running while developers constantly innovate and ship new features?

That’s where NeuBird comes in. We provide the AI-native SRE solution, bringing a Cursor-like agentic workflow to operations teams. Here is how we do it:

Telemetry Indexing

Similar to how Cursor indexes your entire codebase, NeuBird indexes your observability data. It connects to monitoring tools, incident management platforms, communication tools, and cloud providers to build an understanding of your infrastructure topology, service dependencies, tribal knowledge, and historical incident patterns.

Agentic Incident Response

NeuBird’s agentic workflow follows a strategic process:

1. Dynamic Investigation Planning: Formulates an investigation plan, adapting based on retrieved historical context and the specifics of the current incident.
2. Secure Telemetry Query Generation: Rather than sending raw telemetry to the LLM, NeuBird generates structured telemetry queries in a common syntax, ensuring reliable data access regardless of the underlying data source.
3. Secure Data Processing: Queries execute in a secure, ephemeral runtime environment. Only abstracted metadata is shared with the LLM for reasoning.
4. Iterative Refinement: Refines its analysis based on each round of data retrieval, adapting to new information. 
5. Root Cause Analysis and Remediation: The final output includes correlated signals, identified root cause, and actionable remediation steps.

The Autonomy Slider

Like Cursor’s autonomy slider, NeuBird offers varying degrees of automation. At its most basic, it functions as an investigative assistant that provides pre-analyzed context to on-call engineers. At its most autonomous, it can leverage coding agents to automate remediation steps, with human-in-the-loop controls to verify production changes. NeuBird covers all areas of incident response, from alert triage to resolution.

The Parallels

1. Deep Contextual Understanding

Cursor doesn’t just see files in a directory. It understands that a change to your authentication module affects your API gateway, your middleware, and your test suite. NeuBird doesn’t just see CloudWatch alarms. It understands that a CPU spike on your EKS cluster correlates with a deployment event from 45 minutes ago that changed a database connection pool setting affecting downstream services.

2. Agentic Workflows

Cursor’s Agent mode plans multi-step changes, executes them across files, runs tests, and iterates until the code works. NeuBird’s agentic workflows do the same for incidents. When an alert fires, NeuBird automatically queries relevant data sources, correlates signals across platforms, identifies root cause, and delivers actionable remediation steps.

The key similarity is the closed-loop nature of both systems. Neither tool generates a response and walks away. They execute, observe the results, and adjust their approach iteratively until the objective is met.

3. Works With Your Existing Tools

Cursor is based on VS Code because that’s where developers already work. They keep their extensions, keybindings, and muscle memory. NeuBird integrates with the tools you already run: Datadog, PagerDuty, Slack, ServiceNow, because rip-and-replace doesn’t work for production infrastructure. Both tools meet you where you are.

4. Enterprise-Grade Security

Cursor offers SOC 2 Type II compliance, Privacy Mode with zero-retention, and sandboxed execution environments. NeuBird is SOC 2 Type II certified, offers VPC deployment, uses read-only access to your telemetry, and never stores your data persistently.

For operations teams, the security story is arguably even more critical. Telemetry data can contain customer PII, financial transactions, authentication tokens, and other sensitive information. NeuBird’s read-only architecture keeps all raw data within your existing infrastructure. To precisely retrieve relevant information, NeuBird generates structured queries that the secure data access layer translates into platform-specific API calls. Data flows back through the secure processing layer, where analysis happens without exposing raw telemetry to the language model.

The Operations Tooling Revolution

Just as Cursor is specialized to handle complex codebases and enable agentic workflows for programming, NeuBird specializes in handling complex issues in production-grade environments through agentic workflows for incident response.

Your developers probably don’t use Stack Overflow anymore. So why should your operations team use antiquated telemetry dashboards, stale runbooks, and cobbled together AI tools? Before you decide to create a ‘Cursor’ for your ops team in-house, be sure to read “The Harsh Truth: Why Most DIY IT Agents Collapse in Production“. 

The developer tooling revolution is well underway. The operations tooling revolution is just getting started.

If your SRE team is spending more time investigating incidents than building for reliability, try Hawkeye free for 14 days and see how AI-native operations tooling changes the way you work.