At Microsoft Ignite last week, one theme kept coming up in every hallway conversation: SRE teams are exhausted. Right in the middle of that, I sat down with Francois Martel, Field CTO at NeuBird.ai, to talk about how they are trying to change that story together with Microsoft.
NeuBird is working closely with Microsoft to bring Hawkeye, their AI SRE assistant, into the Azure world.
Instead of giving teams yet another dashboard, Hawkeye connects to signals across your stack and helps answer the basic questions every on call engineer has at 3am: What is actually broken, where should I look first, and what should we try next.
Microsoft also featured NeuBird as one of only three startups to watch at Ignite this year. That is a strong signal that reliability and SRE are finally getting a real seat at the AI table, not just sitting behind analytics and chat use cases.
In our conversation we went deep on three areas:
- The Microsoft and NeuBird partnership and what it unlocks for Azure customers
- Why being named a startup to watch matters for a young company in a crowded AI space
- The real SRE pain points they are focused on: noisy alerts, slow incident bridges, growing hybrid environments, and burnout on the teams who keep everything running
If you care about reliability, SRE work, and how AI can support teams instead of adding more noise, this interview will be worth your time.
I will drop the NeuBird and Microsoft blogs, the Ignite startup article.
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