CtrlStack, now rebranded as QueryPal, is a DevOps observability platform designed to simplify real-time troubleshooting for complex, distributed systems. By unifying disconnected data, tools, and teams, it enables organizations to connect cause and effect across their entire infrastructure, facilitating faster incident resolution and reducing downtime. The platform forms a comprehensive knowledge graph of all infrastructure components, interconnected services, and change impacts, empowering DevOps teams to troubleshoot issues in real time and embrace changes without the anxiety of failed deployments.
Key Features and Functionality:
- Event Timeline: Allows teams to browse and filter change events without sifting through log files, providing a clear view of system changes.
- Knowledge Graph: Offers a dependency tree that reveals relationships and connections between operational data, including metrics, events, logs, traces, entities, and changes.
- Change Impact Dashboard: Provides end-to-end visibility of all changes across commits, configuration files, and feature flags in one click, displaying a filtered event timeline, commit details, impacted topology, and metrics.
- Root Cause Analysis Dashboard: Captures all the context of an incident at the moment it occurs, offering a searchable event timeline, impacted topology, metrics, and commit details to streamline the diagnostic process.
Primary Value and Problem Solved:
CtrlStack addresses the challenge of fragmented DevOps data, tools, and knowledge, which often complicate troubleshooting and extend downtime. By integrating change impact and root cause analysis into the DevOps pipeline, it enables teams to detect and remediate code and configuration changes swiftly. This approach reduces the time spent manually backtracking causes, enhances visibility into system changes, and allows teams to focus on what matters most with deeper context, ultimately leading to more reliable services at scale.