High Performance Telemetry Pipeline

Collect once from every layer. The data foundation for full-stack AI infrastructure operations.

FFWD Pipeline collects natively from every layer of your stack — GPU, network, container, application — at AI scale, without gaps. It's the cross-domain telemetry foundation that FFWD's anomaly engine and agent assurance depend on to see what no single monitoring tool can. Built on Rust, deployed privately, pricing that doesn't scale with your data.

The case for a pipeline layer

Telemetry Pipeline is the new data foundation

Why AI infrastructure operations needs a telemetry layer, not another tool.

01 The Problem

AI scale breaks per-GB economics

AI infrastructure generates orders of magnitude more telemetry than traditional software — GPU metrics, model inference logs, agent traces. At TB/day, per-GB destination pricing turns observability into a CFO line item. And every tool wants its own feed — redundant collection, spiralling cost, vendor lock-in.

02 The Pipeline

Collect once. Ship to many.

FFWD sits at the aggregation point. Collect from any source, in any format. Route to any combination of destinations — Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, Kafka, S3, your data lake — now or in the future.

Reduce — 50%+ volume cut Transform in-flight Route by content / priority No destination lock-in
03 The Foundation

A pipeline is infrastructure, not a tool

FFWD's anomaly engine and Agent Assurance evaluate cross-domain state — GPU, network, container, application — because the pipeline already collects all of it. Add a new analytics tool, a new data lake, a new anomaly engine: instant. The pipeline isn't a companion to those systems — it's the data layer they run on.

Reshape Data In-Flight, Not at the Destination

The most expensive place to clean up telemetry is after it arrives. FFWD's transforms run inside the pipeline — between collection and destination — so what reaches your analytics is already parsed, enriched, normalised, and right-sized for whatever consumes it.

  • Parse Extract structured fields from any log format. FFWD's AI-assisted parser learns formats from samples, or configure parsing directly from your AI app via MCP. No regex skills required.
  • Enrich Attach context from lookup tables, live APIs, geo-IP, asset inventories, or other in-flight streams. Decorate raw events with the metadata your analytics actually need.
  • Cast field types Convert values to the types destinations expect — strings to integers, numbers to enums, JSON to columns. Get the schema right before it lands.
  • Normalise timestamps Mixed formats and timezones unified at ingest. ISO-8601 UTC, epoch, or your destination's flavour — picked once, applied everywhere.
  • Reshape per destination Flat key=value for Splunk, tags for Datadog, nested JSON for Elastic, Parquet for the lake — same source, different shapes, one pipeline.
  • Reduce without losing signal Aggregate high-cardinality counters, deduplicate, sample with statistical fidelity, drop fields nobody queries. 50%+ volume cuts that keep what matters.
  • Merge and correlate Join related streams in-flight: pair request logs with response traces, correlate auth events with downstream API calls.

These are common starting points. FFWD's transform vocabulary covers conditional logic, regex, schema validation, custom scripting, multi-stream joins — configured visually or through your AI agents via MCP. If you can describe the transformation in plain terms, it's a single config block.

Architecture

Built in Rust. Engineered for AI-Scale Throughput.

A two-tier architecture purpose-built for the data volumes AI infrastructure generates — without the compute footprint of legacy stacks.

Universal Collector — Edge
100K+
events / sec per instance
  • Rust-native, multi-threaded, GC-free
  • Configure with your AI app via MCP — no regex required
  • Deploy as Docker container or Kubernetes pod
Data Cluster — Central
Millions/s
events / sec — proven throughput
  • Parquet / Arrow columnar storage, efficient compression
  • Minimal compute footprint — runs on a fraction of competitors’ hardware
  • Built-in search, dashboards, alerts — no forwarding required
50+ Native Source Formats

Ingest from anywhere, in any format. No format wrangling, no bespoke collectors.

Cloud
AWS S3 SQS SNS Kinesis CloudWatch GCP PubSub GCP Storage Azure Blob Azure Monitor
Messaging
Kafka / MSK AMQP MQTT NATS Redis Pulsar Splunk HEC
Infrastructure
Kubernetes Docker logs Host metrics JournalD Syslog Exec
Monitoring
OpenTelemetry Prometheus StatsD SNMP NGINX Apache Postgres Datadog MongoDB Okta
Data Sources
File Socket Stdin HTTP Client HTTP Server Fluent Logstash dnstap GNMI WebSocket
GPU Telemetry
NVIDIA Intel AMD Huawei Broadcom Apple Qualcomm
AI Apps via MCP
Parse and configure collectors using AI agents natively — describe the source, FFWD writes the config.
Auto-Parse
~100 Grok templates ready out of the box, plus full support for custom formats.
AI-native observability

Headless Observability direct from the Pipeline

FFWD Pipeline is MCP-first — AI agents query and configure it natively. But humans still operate the stack. Live dashboards, full-text log search, analytics, and alerting are all built into the pipeline. Same data layer, two ways to query.

AI
> query pipeline — service health, last 1h
Events / sec
1.24M
3.4% vs yesterday
Latency p99 — trend
182ms  ·  peak 14:32
Top services by errors
api-gw42 payment30 auth20 search11
  • Live Dashboards
  • Full-Text Log Search
  • Analytics & Aggregation
  • Native Alerting

Private Deployment

FFWD Pipeline runs entirely within your environment. On-premises, private cloud, or air-gapped — your telemetry never leaves your security perimeter. No SaaS dependencies. No data sovereignty concerns.

Multi-tenant architecture lets you run FFWD as private SaaS — serving multiple business units, sites, or customers from a single deployment with full data isolation. Edge collectors deploy at every site; the central cluster aggregates wherever you choose.

Collect everything. Detect across it all. Gate every agent action against what's real. That's the full-stack loop — pipeline, anomaly engine, and agent assurance, unified.