For defense, government, sovereign cloud and regulated banking, AIOps has to run where the data cannot leave. Many vendors say on-prem; far fewer run their full intelligence air-gapped. Here is an honest look at the real options in 2026.
The catch with air-gapped AIOps is that many platforms offer a self-hosted tier that quietly drops the newest AI, the data platform or the SaaS-only features that made them worth buying. The honest question is not whether a vendor can be self-hosted, but whether the full autonomous capability runs inside your perimeter. The list is ordered on that basis.
Autonomous, governed resolution across ten operational domains. It does not just detect and route; ProcBot executes the fix and Sherlock validates it before close, with every action a reversible, audited Action Ticket. Runs SaaS, on-premises or fully air-gapped.
Explore the platform →Deep, automatic causal root-cause analysis via Davis across a fully mapped topology. Best when understanding exactly why something broke is the priority; the newest AI is SaaS-only.
Read the comparison →Service-health scoring, prediction and episode grouping on the Splunk data platform. Powerful for committed Splunk shops; now part of Cisco and assumes data is centralised in Splunk.
Read the comparison →Observability on the Elastic Stack, with strong logs and search heritage and self-hostable deployment.
The de-facto open-source, self-hostable metrics and dashboards stack. Ubiquitous and free, but you assemble correlation and remediation yourself.
Confirm three things. Does the AI itself run inside the perimeter, or does it call a cloud model? Does the self-hosted tier include the platform's newest capabilities, or a reduced feature set? And can it execute governed remediation air-gapped, not just visualize telemetry? Ops Singularity runs the whole platform, including autonomous resolution, fully air-gapped; several others offer observability on-prem but a reduced or SaaS-dependent AI.
It means the platform, including the AI model and the remediation engine, runs entirely inside your network with no dependency on external services, so data never leaves and the system still works with no internet access.
Only partly. Several can self-host their observability layer, but their newest AI or data platform is often SaaS-only. Ops Singularity runs its full autonomous resolution capability air-gapped.
Bring a real incident. We will show you Sentinel investigate, act and verify end to end, with every action reversible and audited.