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aiFObserve – AI Observability & Cost Analysis Platform

Enterprise Decision Support for AI Infrastructure Governance

For CISOs, CIOs, and Executive Leadership

Deployment

The Business Problem

Organizations are rapidly adopting AI without visibility into usage patterns, costs, or security risks. Shadow AI, unauthorized provider usage, and unpredictable costs create significant governance challenges. Traditional network monitoring cannot distinguish between ChatGPT usage, internal AI applications, or malicious data exfiltration.

  • Financial: Unbudgeted AI spend across multiple providers
  • Security: Sensitive data sent to unauthorized AI services
  • Compliance: GDPR/HIPAA violations from external data processing
  • Operational: No visibility into which teams or applications drive AI costs
  • Strategic: Inability to measure ROI of AI investments


Our Solution
aiFObserver Platform transforms existing network telemetry (IPFIX flows) into executive dashboards for AI governance. No agents, no API keys, no integration with AI providers—just your existing network data.

Unique Observability, Cost Analysis, ROI & AI Security Features:

AI Usage Governance Dashboard

What it provides: Real-time visibility into ALL AI traffic across your enterprise

    Executive Questions Answered:
  • Which AI providers are being used? (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Google AI, etc.)
  • Which business units or applications generate the most AI traffic?
  • Are there unauthorized AI services accessing corporate data?
  • What is the data volume being sent to each provider?

    Executive Questions Answered:
  • Which AI providers are being used? (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Google AI, etc.)
  • Which business units or applications generate the most AI traffic?
  • Sample Governance Metrics:
  • AI Adoption Rate: 100% of analyzed traffic
  • Active Providers: 4 (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Google AI)
  • Unauthorized Usage: 10 detected (configurable alerting)
  • Data Volume: 80.48 GB (30 days)
  • Peak Concurrency: 876 simultaneous sessions

    CIO Value Proposition:
  • Establish baseline for normal AI behavior, usage distribution, cost & ROI
  • Identify on anomalous AI traffic
  • Audit trail for compliance reviews (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA)

Financial Intelligence & ROI Modeling

What it provides: Granular cost breakdown with business value attribution

    Executive Questions Answered:
  • What is our actual ROI on AI investments?
  • Which AI provider gives the best return?
  • How do costs vary by time of day or day of week?

    CIO Value Proposition:
  • Data-driven vendor negotiations
  • Capacity planning with confidence intervals
  • Optimization ROI calculation (cache, batch, compression)
  • Chargeback/showback implementation

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AI Security Violations, Risk Visibility & Compliance

What it provides: Automated detection of security violations, risk visibility and compliance

    Risk Categories Monitored: Risk Type- Detection Method
  • AI Shadow-IT
  • AI Data Exfiltration (user to AI or AI to internal data)
  • AI DoS – Cost Amplification
  • AI DoS – Resource Exhaustion
  • AI Bombing
  • AI Reconnaissance
  • AI Compliance Violations

    CISO Value Proposition:
  • Detect shadow AI before it becomes a breach
  • Detect and block AI DoS
  • Identify Unauthorized Data Exfiltration attempts

    Compliance Framework Mapping:
  • GDPR: Article 44 (data transfers), Article 32 (security)
  • CCPA: Section 1798.100 (data collection notice)
  • HIPAA: 45 CFR § 164.308 (risk analysis)
  • SOC2: CC6.1 (logical access), CC7.1 (monitoring)

Strategic Recommendation Engine

What it provides: Prioritized, actionable recommendations with ROI impact

    Example Recommendation Categories:
    Strategic (CEO Focus):
  • ROI Analysis for budget adjustment
  • AI governance ideas
  • Infrastructure growth projections

    Operational (CIO Focus):
  • AI model comparison for increased utilization focus
  • Cost saving ideas
  • Concurrency growth analysis

    Financial (CFO Focus):
  • Dominant provider negotiations techniques
  • Cost savings ideas
  • Cost savings through accountability

    Security (CISO Focus):
  • Mitigate vendor lock-in risk
  • Audit Privacy handling
  • Prevent budget overruns

Competitive Differentiation:

Capability aiFObserve Platform Cloud Native Tools Manual Analysis Dynatrace*
Multi-provider support ✅ All Model providers ❌ Single cloud only ❌ Manual ✅ Some AI Models
No API keys required ✅ Network-based ❌ Requires access ✅ Possible ✅ Possible
No Change at Biz ✅ Network-based ❌ Requires access ✅ Possible ❌ Requires Biz to rewrite Agentic-AI
User engagement metrics ✅ Session analysis ❌ Not available ❌ Very Difficult ✅ Possible
Shadow AI detection ✅ Automatic ❌ Requires prior config ❌ Difficult ❌ Requires prior support
ROI calculation ✅ Automated ❌ No business value ❌ Manual ❌ Manual
Risk scoring ✅ Built-in ❌ Not provided ❌ Manual ❌ Not provided
Recommendations ✅ Prioritized ❌ Raw data only ❌ Subjective ❌ Not provided
Deployment time 15 minutes Weeks Months Weeks to Months
Cost Fixed Subscription Metered Internal Metered Subscription


Note : There are a couple of AI Observability Solution available today that require the Customers to re-write their entire Agentic-AI and platform deployment - to include OpenTelemtry integration

Deployment & Availability:

With minimal requirements for deployment and utilizing existing IPFIX flow data, local or cloud DNS and basic identification of AI models being used, enterprises can start analyzing their AI deployment utilization, cost and ROI within 15 minutes of deploying aIFObserve. Availability: aiFObserve is available as a Docker Image, a virtual appliance or as a SaaS service.

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