What Is Air-Gapped Observability?

Air-gapped observability means the whole stack, including the AI, runs inside a network that never touches the internet.

Air-gapped observability is running the full observability and AIOps stack inside an isolated network with no internet connectivity, so telemetry collection, storage, analysis and any AI models all run self-hosted, for regulated, defence, or operational-technology environments.

Why it exists

Many environments, defence, critical infrastructure, regulated finance, industrial and operational technology, cannot send data to a cloud service, whether for regulation, classification or safety. Air-gapped observability keeps everything inside the boundary: collectors, storage, dashboards and any AIOps intelligence are deployed and run on-premises with no external egress.

What it requires

An air-gapped deployment cannot depend on SaaS backends or cloud-hosted AI, so the entire pipeline must be self-contained, including running any anomaly-detection or agentic models locally. Updates arrive through controlled, offline processes. The hard requirement is that no telemetry and no model call ever leaves the network.

How it fits Opstral

Opstral is built to run fully on-premises and air-gapped, so Sentinel AI's autonomous, governed resolution works even where nothing is allowed to reach the internet.