# Last9

> Last9 is a unified observability company that helps engineering and DevOps teams monitor high-cardinality metrics, logs, and traces without the ballooning costs of legacy tools. Built around a Prometheus- and OpenTelemetry-compatible telemetry warehouse called Levitate and a pre-ingestion Control Plane that filters, reshapes, and routes data, Last9 has been used to observe some of the largest live-streaming events in the world - including peaks of roughly 59-61 million concurrent viewers. Founded in 2020 and backed by Sequoia/Peak XV's Surge, Better Capital and others, it targets cost-efficient, full-fidelity observability at enterprise scale.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** Sunnyvale, California, United States
- **Founders:** Nishant Modak (Co-founder & CEO), Piyush Verma (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~32 employees
- **Products:** Last9 (Observability Platform), Levitate, Telemetry Control Plane, Last9 MCP / AI
- **Notable:** Observability stack used by 12 of the 18 largest live-streaming events in the world., Sustained monitoring at peaks of roughly 59-61 million concurrent viewers (e.g. 2023 Cricket World Cup on Disney+ Hotstar)., Proven to handle more than 100 billion events per day / 545M events ingested per minute.

## Products & services

- **Last9 (Observability Platform)** — Unified observability control plane that correlates logs, metrics, and traces into a single system for monitoring and faster triage, proven to handle 100+ billion events a day.
- **Levitate** — A managed, Prometheus-compatible time-series telemetry warehouse built to handle high cardinality and concurrent access with long-term retention, fast queries, and proactive alerting.
- **Telemetry Control Plane** — A pre-ingestion layer that filters, reshapes, aggregates, converts logs to metrics, and routes telemetry in real time - controlling observability data volume and cost without re-instrumentation.
- **Last9 MCP / AI** — AI-native developer experience and Model Context Protocol integration that brings production telemetry context into IDEs and coding agents for faster root-cause analysis.

## Achievements

- Observability stack used by 12 of the 18 largest live-streaming events in the world.
- Sustained monitoring at peaks of roughly 59-61 million concurrent viewers (e.g. 2023 Cricket World Cup on Disney+ Hotstar).
- Proven to handle more than 100 billion events per day / 545M events ingested per minute.
- Raised ~$13M in disclosed funding, including an $11M Series A in 2022.
- Selected into Sequoia Capital India's Surge program in 2020.
- 4.8/5 rating on G2.

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Expanded into a full telemetry data platform with a pre-ingestion Control Plane and event-based pricing for cost control.
- **2024-06** — Shipped Last9 MCP and AI-native features to bring production telemetry into IDEs and coding agents.
- **2025-01** — Deepened ClickHouse partnership, publishing joint guidance on reducing observability TCO with open, cost-efficient architectures.

## Links

- Website: https://last9.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/last9
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/last9inc
- GitHub: https://github.com/last9
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/last9inc/

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Last updated: 2026-07-11