Sysdig Sage (now Sysdig GenAI Assistant)
https://www.sysdig.com/products/genai-assistant
Sysdig's GenAI-powered cloud-security agent — runtime workload protection + CNAPP findings explained. Launched May-2024. Sysdig parent: $350M Series G 2022 ($2.5B val); Permira-led 2023 round.
Renamed · Verified 2026-10-28 · fresh as of 2026-10-28 · 19 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Cloud-security AIOps agent for runtime/CNAPP vendor fix
- Tier
- T2
- Created
- 2024-05 (Sage launched) vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- Funding
- Sysdig: $350M Series G 2022 ($2.5B val); Permira-led 2023 vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
- Protocols
- mcp-server repo fix
When to use
Optimised for: GenAI for cloud runtime + CNAPP
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
Built on Sysdig Falco (broad runtime data); cloud-runtime focus differentiates from APM-centric peers.
Cons
Security-first observability rather than general SRE; smaller TAM than Datadog/Dynatrace.
Claims & capabilities
Sage launched May-2024; built on Sysdig's open-source Falco runtime-monitor; Sysdig $2.5B val 2022
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — wrong section
- Backend storage
- not applicable — wrong section
- Deployment
- not applicable — wrong section
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — wrong section
- MCP
- yes — official Sysdig MCP Server (sysdiglabs/sysdig-mcp-server)
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
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- Pillar Security T2
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- Promptfoo T2
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- Protect AI T2
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Sources (18 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Cloud-security AIOps agent for runtime/CNAPP vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Sysdig's GenAI-powered cloud-security agent — runtime workload protection + CNAPP findin… vendor
- Claims / benefits Sage launched May-2024; built on Sysdig's open-source Falco runtime-monitor; Sysdig $2.5… vendor
- Created 2024-05 (Sage launched) vendor
- Funding Sysdig: $350M Series G 2022 ($2.5B val); Permira-led 2023 vendor
- Customers / scale Goldman Sachs, BigCommerce + cloud-native enterprises vendor
- HQ San Francisco vendor
- Founders / pedigree Sysdig (Loris Degioanni founder; Suresh Vasudevan CEO) vendor
- MCP support yes — official Sysdig MCP Server (sysdiglabs/sysdig-mcp-server) repo
- Optimised for GenAI for cloud runtime + CNAPP vendor
- Pros Built on Sysdig Falco (broad runtime data); cloud-runtime focus differentiates from APM-… vendor
- Cons Security-first observability rather than general SRE; smaller TAM than Datadog/Dynatrace. vendor
- Project & sources sysdig.com/sysdig-sage/ vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- protocol-support mcp-server repo
What changed
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