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AI Diagnostics – Smarter Monitoring with Local AI

Unlock smarter, faster, and more private monitoring with Nodinite AI Diagnostics. This feature empowers you to analyze diagnostics logs using local or cloud-based AI, delivering actionable insights and reducing time to resolution.

✅ Available in all new Nodinite Monitoring Agents
✅ Works locally with AI providers like Ollama – no cloud required!
✅ Autonomous scanning and context-aware analysis
✅ Fast feedback and reduced MTTR
✅ 100% privacy – your logs never leave your infrastructure

Note

💸 Performing queries against AI models can incur costs, especially when using cloud providers like Azure OpenAI. Please review your AI provider's pricing details to understand potential expenses associated with API usage and model queries.

Why AI Diagnostics?

Traditional monitoring tools only tell you what happened. Nodinite AI Diagnostics goes further, helping you understand why issues occur and how to resolve them. By leveraging advanced AI models, this feature analyzes errors and warnings in diagnostics log files, providing intelligent insights, root-cause suggestions, and actionable summaries in real time.

Whether you're a seasoned operator or just starting out, AI Diagnostics transforms raw log data into clear, human-readable advice, empowering you to fix problems faster and prevent future issues.

Key Benefits

  • ✅ Local-first: Works fully offline using Ollama (optional Azure/OpenAI support)
  • 🧠 Context-aware analysis of log files
  • ⚙️ Autonomous scanning without manual intervention
  • 🕒 Fast feedback on issues – detect and understand within seconds
  • 📉 Reduced MTTR (mean time to resolution) through smart recommendations
  • 🔒 Private by design – no log data needs to leave your infrastructure

How It Works

Nodinite AI Diagnostics continuously scans diagnostics logs generated by the Monitoring Agent. When it finds warnings or errors, it sends the log snippet to your chosen AI provider (local or cloud) for analysis.

graph LR subgraph Nodinite Monitoring Agent Logs[Diagnostics Logs] Scanner[AI Diagnostics Scanner] Scanner --> Logs end subgraph AI Provider AIModel[(AI Model e.g., gpt-4o, phi3)] end Scanner -->|Send error snippets| AIModel AIModel -->|Insightful response| Scanner

The diagram above shows how log snippets are sent to an AI provider and returned with actionable insights, instantly and automatically.

Configuration Options

To get started, configure the AI Diagnostics section within your Monitoring Agent. The table below explains each option:

Field Example Value Description
Enable AI Diagnostics ✅ (checked) Enables AI analysis of diagnostics logs
AI Provider Ollama (Local) Choose between local (Ollama) or cloud-based (Azure/OpenAI) AI engines
Endpoint URL http://localhost:11434 Ollama: http://localhost:11434
Azure OpenAI: https://your-resource.openai.azure.com/
Model/Deployment Name gpt-4o or phi3:mini Ollama: Model name (e.g., phi3:mini, llama2)
Azure/OpenAI: Deployment/model name
Scan Interval (seconds) 60 How often to scan log files (range: 10–3600 sec, recommended: 60)
Max Tokens 1024 Controls length of AI response (range: 128–4096, default: 1024)
Temperature 0.2 Controls creativity of AI (0 = focused, 1 = creative)
Read All Log Files ✅ (checked) If checked, includes rotated logs in the scan; uncheck for better performance

Best Practices:

  • For offline environments, use Ollama with models like phi3:mini or llama2.
  • Keep Scan Interval reasonable (e.g., 60 seconds) to avoid performance overhead.
  • Use a low temperature (e.g., 0.2) for more reliable and focused diagnostics.
  • Only enable Read All Log Files if older log entries are relevant to your use case.
  • 🔒 Your logs stay 100% on-premises, ensuring compliance and privacy.

Final Thoughts

Nodinite AI Diagnostics transforms your monitoring experience from reactive to proactive. It’s not just about logging errors, but understanding them, fixing them faster, and preventing future issues. Activate it today and start getting more from your logs.

📣 Need help getting started? Reach out to Support

Which Agents Support AI Diagnostics?

We are currently rolling out AI Diagnostics across our Agents (Log- and Monitoring) converted to .NET 9.
The following Nodinite Agents support AI Diagnostics:

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