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Azure gives you an agent.
Cleric gives you a learning system for production.

Azure SRE Agent is built for Azure operations, while Cleric learns across your full production environment.

Four dimensions that matter in production

Investigation surface

Cleric

Built for investigations that cut across cloud, code, deploys, tickets, chat, and customer context.

Azure SRE Agent

Azure-hosted applications, Azure resources, and connected incident tools.

Definition of an issue

Cleric

Can start from an alert, a Jira ticket, a customer escalation, a Slack thread, or a scheduled proactive scan.

Azure SRE Agent

Strongest when the issue starts as an Azure Monitor alert or Azure operations workflow.

Integrations

Cleric

No walled garden. If a system has an API or MCP server, Cleric can pull it into the investigation without an Azure-first assumption.

Azure SRE Agent

Azure-first, with Azure Monitor and connected incident tools like PagerDuty.

Compounding knowledge and accuracy

Cleric

Adds an explicit verification engine that measures findings against outcomes, not just stored context.

Azure SRE Agent

Learns with human oversight and accumulates operational context.

Azure SRE Agent is an agent. Cleric is an autonomous learning system.

Stage
Cleric
Azure SRE Agent

Orient

Learns service topology, past issues and your engineering conventions.

Autonomous, human gated
Not covered

Detect

Recognizes a meaningful production issue.

Autonomous
Autonomous

Investigate

Correlates evidence to explain what happened.

Autonomous
Manual

Act / escalate

Takes action or routes to the right human.

Autonomous, human gated
Autonomous, human gated

Verify

Checks whether the fix actually worked.

Autonomous
Not covered

Learn

Improves future work from resolved outcomes.

Autonomous
Manual

Orient

Learns service topology, past issues and your engineering conventions.

Cleric
Autonomous, human gated
Azure SRE Agent
Not covered

Detect

Recognizes a meaningful production issue.

Cleric
Autonomous
Azure SRE Agent
Autonomous

Investigate

Correlates evidence to explain what happened.

Cleric
Autonomous
Azure SRE Agent
Manual

Act / escalate

Takes action or routes to the right human.

Cleric
Autonomous, human gated
Azure SRE Agent
Autonomous, human gated

Verify

Checks whether the fix actually worked.

Cleric
Autonomous
Azure SRE Agent
Not covered

Learn

Improves future work from resolved outcomes.

Cleric
Autonomous
Azure SRE Agent
Manual

Bottom line

Azure SRE Agent investigates Azure-hosted applications and Azure operations. Cleric is a learning system for production, not just an Azure-first agent. That is the difference between using an agent inside one cloud surface and improving how your environment gets understood over time.

See how Cleric investigates your production issues

Setup takes minutes. Read-only by default. See how Cleric investigates production issues across your full stack.