Hey, I'm Samson — and I built Nova AI Ops because I was tired of being paged at 3 AM.
For years, I watched SRE teams (including my own) drown in the same problems:
- 12+ monitoring tools that don't talk to each other
- $50,000/month bills from Datadog + PagerDuty + Splunk + New Relic + OpsGenie + half a dozen more
- 300+ alerts per day, most of which were noise
- 47-minute MTTRs because engineers had to check 6 dashboards during every incident
- On-call burnout so bad that 40% of the team left in a year
I kept thinking: this has to be a tooling problem, not a people problem.
So I built Nova AI Ops.
What Nova AI Ops Is
Nova AI Ops is one AI-native platform that replaces your entire monitoring and incident response stack. One install command, zero config files, 500+ integrations.
But the real difference isn't the consolidation — it's the AI.
We built a fleet of 100 specialized AI agents that work in parallel:
- Detection agents watch metrics, logs, traces, and events 24/7
- Correlation agents group related alerts (94% noise reduction in production)
- Diagnosis agents match incoming incidents against 10,000+ historical patterns
- Remediation agents execute 954 pre-built runbooks with automatic rollback
- Approval Queue for high-risk actions that need a human in the loop
The result? 78% of incidents auto-resolve without anyone getting paged. The 22% that do reach humans arrive with root cause analysis, blast radius preview, suggested fix, and one-click approval.
The Numbers That Matter
Here's what we see in production environments:
| Metric | Before Nova | After Nova |
|---|---|---|
| Alerts per day | 300+ | ~18 |
| MTTR | 47 min | 3 min |
| Auto-resolution rate | 0% | 78% |
| Monitoring bill | $50K/mo | $29/user |
| Dashboards during incidents | 6+ | 1 |
| Tools replaced | - | 12+ |
What Makes It "AI-Native"
Most "AIOps" tools bolt ML onto existing monitoring. They make alerts smarter but still wake you up.
Nova was built AI-first from day one:
Agents think, not just alert. When an incident fires, the diagnosis agent walks your dependency graph, pulls relevant logs, queries historical patterns, and produces a ranked list of likely causes — before any human opens the dashboard.
What-If simulation. Before enabling auto-remediation on a runbook, you can replay any past incident through it to see exactly what would have happened. No surprises in production.
Baseline learning. Nova observes your services for 14 days and learns what "normal" looks like. A traffic spike that would trigger a static threshold gets ignored if it matches Tuesday morning patterns.
Safety rails. Every remediation runs in a sandboxed context with automatic rollback if validation fails. High-risk actions (database changes, prod deploys) always require human approval via the Approval Queue.
Who It's For
Nova AI Ops is for you if:
- You're an SRE, DevOps engineer, or platform engineer
- You run production workloads on AWS, GCP, Azure, or Kubernetes
- You're tired of tool sprawl, alert fatigue, or on-call burnout
- You want AI that actually does work, not AI that just summarizes dashboards
What We Replace
One Nova subscription replaces:
- Datadog (metrics + APM + infra monitoring)
- PagerDuty / OpsGenie / VictorOps (on-call + alerting)
- Splunk / Elastic (log management)
- New Relic / Dynatrace (APM)
- Grafana (dashboards, but you can keep yours if you want)
- Custom runbook tools and incident management platforms
Everything in one dashboard, one bill, one AI platform.
Pricing (Because I Hate "Contact Sales" Pages)
- Basic: Free forever, 1 user, core monitoring
- Standard: $29/user/mo, up to 10 users, AI Copilot, on-call scheduling
- Pro: $50/user/mo, unlimited users, full AI auto-remediation, 90-day retention
No enterprise sales call. Self-serve upgrade. Free trial at novaaiops.com — no credit card required.
What's Coming Next
Over the next few weeks, I'll be posting deep-dives on dev.to about:
- How we built the AI agent fleet architecture
- The correlation engine that cuts alert noise by 94%
- Runbook automation patterns that actually work in production
- Post-mortem best practices from 200+ real incidents
- Monitoring costs and why your bill is too high
- On-call wellness and fair rotation design
If any of this resonates, follow along. I write honestly about what works and what doesn't — no marketing fluff.
Try It
If you want to see it in action, novaaiops.com has a free trial with no credit card required. Install takes under a minute:
curl -fsSL https://get.novaaiops.com/install.sh | sudo bash
And if you just want to talk shop about SRE, monitoring, or AI agents, drop a comment. I read every reply.
Happy to answer any questions about the platform, the tech, or the decision to build it in the first place.
— Samson
Written by Dr. Samson Tanimawo
BSc · MSc · MBA · PhD
Founder & CEO, Nova AI Ops. https://novaaiops.com