Arize brings its Alyx AI engineering agent to Google Cloud Marketplace

What Alyx does in Gemini Enterprise

Inside Arize AX, Alyx works with traces, evaluations, datasets and experiments to plan and carry out multi-step engineering tasks. According to Arize, these include investigating failures, building evaluations and testing prompt improvements against evidence. The Gemini Enterprise version brings the investigation side of that work to a wider audience.

A user can ask a question such as "how is my customer support agent doing this week?" Alyx then searches the traces in Arize, groups related failures and returns a diagnosis backed by the spans and tool calls behind it. Results appear as structured, interactive components in the Gemini Enterprise chat rather than as a block of text.

Why Arize built it

Arize argues that most people who care whether an AI agent works did not build it. It names product managers, support leads, risk and compliance teams and business owners as examples. Today, the company says, getting answers usually means asking an engineer to pull up a dashboard.

Because many of these teams already work in Gemini Enterprise, anyone with an Arize account can get a trace-backed answer about agent quality there. People responsible for making changes continue to do so in Arize AX. According to Arize, this split, where everyone can see how an agent is doing but only authorized people can change it, is what its enterprise customers in financial services and other regulated industries asked for.

Open standards and access control

Alyx connects to Gemini Enterprise through the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, which was developed by Google Cloud and is now part of the Linux Foundation. A2A lets Gemini Enterprise discover what Alyx can do, hand it a task and receive results and status updates in a standard format. Arize says this requires no custom integration work on the customer side.

The listing also implements A2UI, Google's Agent-to-UI specification, which lets agents return rich UI components instead of plain text. This is how investigation results show up as structured cards. Authentication uses OAuth, so Alyx only sees the Arize spaces that the signed-in user is already authorized to see.

Scope, cost and what comes next

The first release focuses on investigation and insight: asking about agent performance, finding and grouping failures, and understanding what went wrong. Remediation actions such as editing prompts, running experiments and updating evaluators remain in Arize AX, where the full set of controls and review steps already exist. The Gemini Enterprise agent is available at no additional cost to Arize AX customers, according to Arize.

Arize says it is building a deeper integration for teams developing agents on Gemini Enterprise, so remediation can happen alongside investigation. The stated aim is to take an agent from insight to experiment to improvement without leaving Gemini Enterprise. In the company's words, "Today Alyx tells you what's wrong; the next release will help you fix it in the same place." The source gives no date for that release.

Dai Vu, Managing Director, Marketplace & ISV GTM Programs at Google Cloud, said the marketplace listing "will help customers quickly deploy, manage, and grow the company's Alyx AI engineering agent on Google Cloud's trusted, global infrastructure."

What it means for teams

For existing Arize AX customers on Google Cloud, the listing offers a way to extend agent monitoring beyond engineering. Non-engineers can ask questions in Gemini Enterprise and get answers tied to real traces, while changes stay behind existing permissions. To start, users find Alyx on Google Cloud Marketplace, add it to their Gemini Enterprise environment and sign in with their Arize account. Teams new to Arize can request a demo covering Alyx in both Arize AX and Gemini Enterprise.