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For regulated and isolated environments

Air-gapped and on-premises GPU failure diagnosis

Air-gapped reliability work cannot depend on uploading a proprietary training log or calling a hosted model. The diagnostic path, pattern corpus, incident record and monitoring output must operate inside the environment and remain useful when no external service is reachable.

Denpex local mode runs its deterministic diagnosis engine on the host, stores incident JSON locally and exposes Prometheus metrics. Hosted research and AI fallback are unavailable offline, so the evaluation must test whether deterministic coverage is sufficient for the environment's real failure mix.

Who this is for

  • Defense and national laboratory teams
  • Regulated enterprise AI teams
  • On-premises ML platforms
  • Security architects
  • HPC administrators
  • Data center infrastructure engineers

The failure surface

These incidents look adjacent in the final alert, but they require different owners and different proof before recovery.

Zero-egress diagnosis

Keep raw logs, signatures, incident records and monitoring inside the controlled network boundary.

Offline software supply

Verify agent, engine and pattern artifacts with the published checksum manifest before import.

Existing monitoring

Expose local Prometheus metrics for the environment's approved collection and dashboard stack.

Coverage boundaries

Measure deterministic coverage explicitly because hosted fallback and live research are not available offline.

The operating loop

  1. 1

    Import verified artifacts

    Transfer the agent, local engine and pattern database through the approved software supply process.

  2. 2

    Audit zero egress

    Run dry mode and network controls to verify what the selected deployment can and cannot transmit.

  3. 3

    Diagnose and record locally

    Wrap jobs or inspect saved logs while incident files remain in the configured local directory.

  4. 4

    Export only approved metrics

    Route Prometheus output and reports through the organization's existing security boundary.

What Denpex contributes

  • On-host deterministic diagnosis with no API key in local mode
  • Local incident JSON and Prometheus fleet-health output
  • Client-side masking and strict signature-only modes for connected deployments
  • Published checksums and documented Kubernetes, Slurm and bare-metal installation paths

Measure this in an evaluation

Use your incidents and timestamps. These are measurement definitions, not Denpex customer-outcome claims.

Recommended evaluation metrics and how to measure them.
MetricMeasurement
Zero-egress verificationObserved outbound connections and payload inspection under the organization's own network controls.
Offline coverageResolved historical incidents correctly routed by the deterministic path without hosted assistance.
Update effortOperator time to verify, import, deploy and roll back a signed pattern or agent release.
Local resolution timeTime from incident capture to verified action while disconnected from external services.

Frequently asked questions

What leaves the cluster in Denpex air-gapped mode?

The documented DENPEX_LOCAL path performs deterministic diagnosis on the host, writes local incident records and serves local Prometheus metrics. It does not require an API key and does not send logs, signatures or heartbeats to the hosted service.

What functionality is unavailable without outbound access?

Hosted AI fallback and live external research are unavailable. The bundled deterministic matcher, causal pipeline, local incident records and metrics remain available. A pilot should quantify which historical incidents require evidence beyond that offline path.

How are software updates moved into an isolated environment?

The organization controls transfer and approval. Denpex publishes the agent bundle and checksum manifest; the operator verifies artifacts before import and should test both update and rollback in the target deployment process.

Does the public site prove qualification for our compliance regime?

No. The Trust Center documents current controls and status, while organization-specific accreditation, hosting, contractual and support requirements require procurement and security review. Denpex should not be represented as approved for a regime solely from a marketing page.

Prove it on incidents your team already resolved

Freeze the expected owner and outcome, replay the evidence, then compare operator time and decision quality with your current process.

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