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Published:   28 July 2026 Author:   Maria José Adão-Dercksen | Skunkworks Academy | Portugal Category:   Artificial Intelligence & Cloud Computing Reading Time:   10 minutes Agentic Observability Explained: How AI  Is Transforming Azure Cloud Operations Introduction Cloud environments have become incredibly complex. Modern organisations now manage thousands of infrastructure components, applications, containers, services, APIs and user interactions across distributed platforms. Traditional monitoring tools were designed to alert administrators when something went wrong. Today's cloud environments require far more than alerts. Teams need systems that can identify issues, understand their causes, predict future problems and, increasingly, take corrective action automatically. This is where agentic observability is emerging as the next evolution of cloud operations. By combining observability data, artificial intelligence, automation and intelligent agents, or...