How Formula 1 automated their SQL Server Database Ops & Health Checks on AWS, using AI Agents
Regular 50 minute session for SQLBits 2026Thursday - 23 Apr 2026 - 14:10 - 15:00 AuditoriumTL; DR
F1 built a purpose-built root-cause analysis (RCA) assistant, to help IT engineers rapidly troubleshoot live race incidents, -covering network to API failures - reducing manual effort and accelerating root cause resolution across telemetry and F1 TV
Session Details
Formula 1® (F1) races are high-stakes affairs, where operational efficiency is paramount. During these live events, F1 IT engineers must triage critical issues across its services, such as network degradation to one of its APIs. This impacts downstream services that consume data from the API, including car telemetry and products such as F1 TV, which offer live and on-demand coverage of every race as well as real-time telemetry. In this session, we show you how F1 created a purpose-built root cause analysis (RCA) assistant to empower users such as operations engineers, software developers, and network engineers to troubleshoot issues, narrow down on the root cause, and significantly reduce the manual intervention required to fix recurrent issues during and after live events.
3 things you'll get out of this session
- Understand how F1 built a purpose-built RCA assistant, to triage live race incidents at speed.
- Learn how to reduce manual intervention in recurrent operational issues, using AI-driven root cause analysis agents.
- Discover how to empower cross-functional teams — ops, dev, and network engineers — to troubleshoot faster during high-pressure live events.
- Learn how to reduce manual intervention in recurrent operational issues, using AI-driven root cause analysis agents.
- Discover how to empower cross-functional teams — ops, dev, and network engineers — to troubleshoot faster during high-pressure live events.