Tagged: monitoring
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Xiaodan Zhuang
Xiaodan Zhuang, who also goes by Dennis, is the co-founder and CEO of Greptime, a company building GreptimeDB, an open-source observability database written in Rust that unifies metrics, logs, and traces. Before starting Greptime in 2022, he spent roughly 18 years in software infrastructure, including leading the intelligent monitoring team at Ant Group where he built ultra-large-scale time-series platforms for AIOps, plus earlier stints at Taobao/Alibaba and LeanCloud. He is a long-time open-source contributor (GitHub handle killme2008) behind projects like Aviator and xmemcached, and a self-described car enthusiast who races on tracks.
Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, the widely used open-source dashboarding and observability platform. Founded in 2014 to commercialize Torkel Odegaard's visualization tool, it has grown into a full-stack observability vendor built on a 'big tent' philosophy - letting teams unify metrics, logs, traces and profiles from any source without ripping out existing tools. Its LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) plus Grafana Cloud and Grafana Enterprise now serve more than 7,000 paying organizations, including roughly 70% of the Fortune 50, with the business surpassing $400M in annual recurring revenue and a $6B valuation.
InfluxData
InfluxData is the company behind InfluxDB, the open source time series database purpose-built for high-volume, timestamped data from sensors, applications, infrastructure, and IoT devices. Founded in 2012 and led by CEO Evan Kaplan and founder/CTO Paul Dix, InfluxData rebuilt its engine in Rust on the Apache Arrow, DataFusion, Flight, and Parquet stack for InfluxDB 3. The platform is used by more than 1,900 paying customers - including Tesla, IBM, Cisco, PayPal, and Nordstrom - to collect, store, and analyze real-time data at scale.
Greptime
Greptime is an open-source database company building GreptimeDB, a unified observability database that stores metrics, logs, traces, and wide events in a single engine on object storage like Amazon S3. Written in Rust and built on Apache Arrow and DataFusion, it separates compute from storage to cut costs at scale and speaks both SQL and PromQL. Founded in 2022 by ex-Alibaba and Ant Group engineers, Greptime positions GreptimeDB as a drop-in replacement for the Prometheus, Loki, and Elasticsearch stack, serving customers across connected vehicles, IoT, and observability.
Kloudfuse
Kloudfuse is a Cupertino-based observability company that unifies metrics, logs, traces, real user monitoring, continuous profiling, and LLM monitoring into a single observability data lake that runs inside a customer's own cloud (VPC) rather than a vendor SaaS. Founded in 2022 by veterans of Springpath, Nicira, VMware, and Cisco, it pitches an OpenTelemetry-native, AI/ML-powered platform that gives enterprises data ownership and 60-80% cost savings versus incumbents like Datadog. It launched out of stealth in November 2023 with $23M in funding and is used by companies including GE HealthCare, Zscaler, Tata 1mg, and Automation Anywhere.
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.
Raj Dutt
Raj Dutt is the co-founder and CEO of Grafana Labs, the company behind the open source dashboarding tool used by more than 25 million people. He previously founded and sold the hosting company Voxel to Internap, then co-founded Raintank in 2014 with Torkel Ödegaard and Anthony Woods and later rebranded it as Grafana Labs. In 2025 the company crossed $400M ARR with 7,000+ customers.
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.
Sciens Building Solutions
Sciens Building Solutions is a national fire-life safety and security systems integrator headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Built since 2016 through a rapid roll-up of regional specialists, Sciens designs, installs, inspects, services and monitors fire detection, suppression, sprinkler, security and communications systems for commercial, institutional and government buildings across more than a dozen U.S. states. Backed by Carlyle, it aims to become the largest independent fire-life safety and security integrator in the United States.
ControlUp
ControlUp is a digital employee experience (DEX) and autonomous endpoint management platform that helps IT teams see, score, and fix problems on every desktop, virtual session, and SaaS app before users start filing tickets. Born in Israel in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves more than 2,000 enterprise customers and was named a Leader in the inaugural 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DEX Tools.
Jonathan Trevor
Jonathan Trevor is a Co-Founder of Observe, Inc., an AI-powered observability platform built on a streaming data lake that unifies logs, metrics, and traces to help engineering teams detect, investigate, and resolve incidents faster. He came to Observe from Wavefront (now VMware Tanzu Observability), where he served as Frontend Lead, and before that led frontend engineering at Shocase. Trevor holds a PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University. Observe - co-founded with Jacob Leverich (ex-Splunk), Jon Watte (ex-Roblox), and Philip Unterbrunner (ex-Snowflake) and incubated by Sutter Hill Ventures - raised $156M in Series C funding in July 2025 before Snowflake announced its intent to acquire the company for approximately $1 billion in January 2026, its largest acquisition to date.
Theo Schlossnagle
Theo Schlossnagle is a serial entrepreneur, software engineer, and investor who has spent three decades pushing the edges of distributed systems and scalable infrastructure. Founder of OmniTI (1997), Circonus (2010), and General Partner at L42 Ventures, he is a Distinguished Member of the ACM, an IEEE member, co-chair of ACM's Queue Magazine, and the author of 'Scalable Internet Architectures'. Beyond software, he runs a butcher shop in Maryland, maintains a farm retreat in West Virginia, and has left Twitter for greener (and more federated) social pastures.