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monitor software and infrastructure in production , the practice known as observability is becoming more and more intemperate — not sluttish .
Accordingto late survey , 69 % of developer operations pro say that their observability data is expanding at a “ concerning ” rate , making it more challenging to spot anomaly . Meanwhile , pro are being forced to beguile agrowingnumber of observability tools .
Juraj Masar and Veronika Kolejak experienced the frustrations firsthand as software developers . Masar is a three - time startup founder , most recently having served as VP of engineering at crowd - selling platform Represent.com . Kolejak , a biochemist by education , previously worked at Shopify , Google and Merck in various engineering roles .
“ Today , developers are using dozens of tools that need to be integrated , cost a destiny and experience like they were designed in the 2000s , ” Masar told TechCrunch in an e-mail interview . “ And they take ages for user to comprehend to the full . ”
Masar ’s and Kolejak ’s resolution isBetter Stack , an observability political platform that they launched in 2021 to combine monitoring , logging , and incident direction into a single fascia . With living for monitoring apps , websites , waiter , database and more , Better Stack deliver alerts , helps schedule things like on - call tariff and taps algorithmic program to normalize metrics from different logs and sources .
Better Stack does n’t stand alone in the market for observability suites . Among its rival isObserve , which offers tools for storing , managing and analyzing machine - generated data and logarithm . There ’s alsoChronosphere(valued at over $ 1.6 billion),PantomathandHoneycomb , the last of which secured a $ 50 million investment last April .
But Masar avow that Better Stack offer several advantages over rival .
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One launched within the last few month : AI - based incident silencing . concord to Masar , the capableness is designed to enable engineer to comfortably discover decisive incident from interference , with any portion write those engineers from waking up in the center of the night to answer to misconfigured or benign alerts .
Masar also claims that Better Stack is cheaper and faster than the competition — and more intuitive for engineers to use , thanks to its collaborative glide path to data query . Whether there ’s truth to that or not , Better Stack ’s seemingly had no trouble appeal client , develop its client cornerstone to over 4,000 brands and government agencies in Singapore , Canada , Norway , Australia and the U.K.
In a right to vote of self-confidence from investors , Better Stack — which Masar claims is profitable — latterly raised $ 10 million as part of a tranche led by Kaya with involution from angel investor including Box CEO Aaron Levie . The Modern cash brought Better Stack ’s full upper-case letter raised to $ 28.6 million , which Masar , Better Stack ’s CEO , says is being put toward grow the startup ’s workforce from 28 employees to 50 by the end of the year and develop fresh products and service .
Carl Fritjofsson , oecumenical collaborator at Creandum , added in an emailed statement : “ At Creandum , we profoundly care about product experience , and Better Stack not only redefined what beautiful and intuitive observability production see like , but at long last Better Stack customers will be empowered to establish better ware themselves . With 10x down cost and 10x better performance , we ’re convinced that Better Stack will become an important part of computer software substructure . ”
