# Azure SRE Agent manages Azure. Cleric investigates everything.

> Azure SRE Agent manages Azure resources natively. Cleric investigates across your full stack with verified outcomes regardless of cloud.
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Azure SRE Agent is specialized for Azure operations, while Cleric also operates across your full production environment.

- Start free trial: https://cleric.ai/start
- Explore the product: https://demo.cleric.ai
- Book a demo: https://cleric.ai/demo

**Cleric is designed to work with Azure.** Cleric connects to Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics. It adds cross-cloud investigation and outcome verification on top of your Azure stack. Work with Cleric in Microsoft Teams or Slack, regardless of where your services run.

## Four dimensions that matter in production

| Dimension | Cleric | Azure SRE Agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Investigation surface | Cloud, code, deploys, tickets, chat, and customer context across any provider. | Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and connected tools including PagerDuty, ServiceNow, GitHub, and Azure DevOps. |
| Definition of an issue | Can start from an alert, a Jira ticket, a customer escalation, a Slack or Microsoft Teams thread, or a scheduled proactive scan. | Azure Monitor alerts, incident management platforms, scheduled workflows, and on-demand operational tasks. |
| Integrations | No walled garden. If a system has an API, Cleric can pull it into the investigation. [Learn more](https://cleric.ai/technology.md) | Azure-first with native resource management via CLI and REST APIs. Extends to Grafana, PagerDuty, and ServiceNow. |
| Compounding knowledge and accuracy | Measures findings against real outcomes, not just stored context. [Learn more](https://cleric.ai/technology.md) | Captures root causes, resolution steps, and operational patterns. Learns progressively within Azure operations over time. |

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

| Stage | What it covers | 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 |

## When to choose Azure

Azure SRE Agent can manage every Azure service through CLI and REST APIs and build custom agents for specific Azure domains. If your operations are Azure-first, that native depth matters. Choose Azure.

## Bottom line

Azure SRE Agent goes deep inside Azure. Cleric goes wide across your full environment and verifies outcomes. Depth in one cloud vs. breadth across all of them.

## See how Cleric investigates your production issues

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

- Start free trial: https://cleric.ai/start
- Explore the product: https://demo.cleric.ai
- Book a demo: https://cleric.ai/demo
- All comparisons: https://cleric.ai/compare.md
- Cleric vs AWS DevOps Agent: https://cleric.ai/compare/aws.md
- Cleric vs Bits AI SRE: https://cleric.ai/compare/datadog.md
- Cleric vs Grafana Assistant: https://cleric.ai/compare/grafana.md
- Cleric vs PagerDuty SRE Agent: https://cleric.ai/compare/pagerduty.md

Information about Azure SRE Agent is based on publicly available data as of May 2026 and may not reflect the most current features or pricing. All third-party trademarks referenced on this page are the property of their respective owners. Cleric is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Azure.