Kerno

Kerno is a runtime intelligence engine designed to give developers and their AI code agents the real-time production context they need. It solves the challenge of developers lacking visibility into how their code performs in production, enabling AI-native teams to ship faster and more confidently without disrupting their live environments.

Key Features

Discover the core components and capabilities that make Kerno an essential tool for modern development workflows:

• Kerno IDE Extension: Brings critical runtime context directly into your preferred IDE. Get live performance metrics, identify hotspots, understand dependencies for APIs, functions, and database queries, and see the potential impact of code changes before you merge, empowering you to optimize and refactor with confidence.

• Kerno Studio: Provides a centralized, visual environment to explore and understand code behavior across runtime environments. Navigate system maps, collaborate on issues, configure context-rich alerts that cut through noise, and build custom dashboards tailored to your team's needs.

• AI Agent Integration (Kerno MCP): Feeds your AI code agents with continuous, real-world production context. This ensures that the code suggestions and snippets generated by your AI assistant are fine-tuned for your specific environment, improving their accuracy and relevance.

• Graph-Based Runtime Context: Unlike traditional time-series data, Kerno maps your runtime environments using a graph model, linking systems, code, and teams. This approach provides deeply connected, context-rich insights that help you understand how everything fits together.

• Zero-Code Instrumentation with eBPF: Leverage the power of eBPF to gain language-agnostic visibility into your applications at the kernel level, without requiring any code changes, SDKs, or application restarts. This provides a complete view with minimal system footprint.

How Kerno Solves Your Problems

Kerno directly addresses common pain points faced by development and operations teams:

• Catch & Fix Issues Early: Receive timely insights within your IDE about exceptions, slow queries, API drift, or emerging performance bottlenecks. This allows developers to quickly identify and resolve small issues before they escalate into significant production incidents. The result? A reported 64% reduction in customer-facing production incidents for Kerno users.

• Ship Code with Confidence: Understand the real-world impact of every code change and validate them against what's running in production. This enables developers to make better decisions, merge with assurance, and achieve a 3X increase in successful first-time deployments.

• Increase Engineering Velocity: By providing developers with direct access to the context they need, Kerno significantly reduces their reliance on Ops teams for debugging and information gathering. This redirects valuable engineering hours back to feature development, with users reporting 20% of engineering hours redirected to feature work each quarter.

• Improve AI-Generated Code Quality: Ensure that code generated by AI copilots is informed by your actual runtime environment, leading to more reliable and effective suggestions that minimize potential issues when deployed.

Why Choose Kerno?

Kerno stands out by focusing on developer workflows and practical efficiency:

• Developer-Focused Workflows: Kerno is designed to strip away noise and provide only the essential, correlated data developers need to troubleshoot effectively, guiding them with opinionated workflows that don't require deep systems expertise.

• Secure Data Handling: All sensitive data, including logs, traces, and payloads, remains securely within your own cloud environment. Kerno stores this data cost-effectively in object storage, maintaining your control and avoiding vendor lock-in. Access via the portal uses double-blind encryption.

• Predictable Cost at Scale: Kerno's architecture and pricing model are based on the number of nodes, not data volume. This ensures predictable costs as you scale, eliminating surprise bills often associated with data-intensive monitoring solutions.

Conclusion

Kerno provides the critical runtime intelligence that empowers AI-native teams to accelerate their development cycles while enhancing stability. By bringing production context directly to developers and their AI tools, Kerno helps you ship faster, reduce incidents, and reclaim valuable engineering time.

Ready to give your team the context they need? Explore how Kerno can transform your development workflow.