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eG Innovations and the Case of the Innocent Server
Every team has a healthy dashboard. The user still has a slow application. eG Innovations built a business around finding the trouble between those two facts.
The Company That Put the Haystack on a Diet
Dash0 built an observability business around a heretical idea: keeping every scrap of machine data can make it harder to see what broke. Now its open-standard platform is stretching from incident response into the AI-written code that creates the next incident.
Datadog Put the Cloud on One Screen. Then the Meter Started Running.
Datadog made a large business out of ending one old argument: developers blamed operations, operations blamed developers, and neither side saw the same evidence. Its unified screen now watches everything from Kubernetes clusters to AI agents - while asking customers to watch the meter, too.
Dynatrace Built a $2 Billion Answer Machine for When the Cloud Breaks
Most monitoring tools tell engineers that something is wrong. Dynatrace has spent 21 years - and is betting $915 million on Arize - trying to tell them what broke, why it matters, and what to do next.
Coralogix Wants to Kill the Observability Tax - Without Throwing Away the Data
The $1.6 billion observability company made a contrarian bet: analyze telemetry before storage, leave the archive in the customer's cloud, and stop charging as if every log line deserves a penthouse. AI may turn that cost argument into infrastructure strategy.
Cloudwise Wants AI to Take the 3 A.M. Pager
The Singapore-based enterprise software company spent years teaching large organizations to see their tangled IT systems. Its next act is teaching AI agents to diagnose the mess - and, increasingly, help clean it up.
New Relic
New Relic is a San Francisco-based, AI-powered observability platform that gives engineering teams a single place to see everything running in their software - from application code and infrastructure to logs, user experience, and AI models. Founded in 2008 by Lew Cirne, it helped popularize application performance monitoring (APM) and later coined much of the modern 'observability' category. After going public in 2014 and being taken private in a $6.5 billion deal in 2023, New Relic now serves thousands of companies with usage-based, consumption pricing and a strong bet on AI and agentic observability.
Sentry
Sentry is an application monitoring platform built for developers - giving engineering teams real-time visibility into errors, performance bottlenecks, and crashes across web, mobile, and backend stacks. Started as an open-source side project in 2008, it now serves more than four million developers and 100,000+ organizations including Disney, Microsoft, Atlassian, and GitHub.