monitoring

The pandemic brought with it a spike in work-from-home and hybrid work, which increased peoples’ dependence on personal devices — driving businesses to try and rein in their use. It’s…

LeapXpert raises $22M to monitor employee chats for compliance

Metrist, a startup that helps IT teams stay on top of outages among the many cloud services they use to run their own applications, today announced that it has raised…

Metrist raises $5.5M to provide better cloud service outage data

Arize AI, a startup developing a platform for machine learning operations, today announced that it raised $38 million in a Series B round led by TCV with participation from Battery…

Arize lands $38M to grow its MLOps platform for the enterprise

The food service industry faces steep labor, quality control and sustainability challenges exacerbated by the pandemic. According to NSF International, a product testing and certification organization, more than half of…

PreciTaste lands cash for tech that checks restaurant orders for accuracy

In the software industry, observability tools provide businesses insights on the health of their production apps. At best, observability tools can flag when apps are performing under par and help…

Observability startup Better Stack lands $18.6M in new cash

Startups face many challenges, but one outsized one is having to navigate regulatory requirements that differ in each jurisdiction. Particularly when it comes to financial compliance, implementing solutions isn’t a…

Flagright offers transaction monitoring with usage-based pricing

In software development, observability refers to keeping watch over all of an app’s components, from mobile and web clients to backend infrastructure. Given how critical this sort of visibility into…

Cribl raises $150M to beat back rival observability tools

Software apps are increasingly cloud-based, distributed and updated at a breakneck pace. They’re growing more complex, in other words, which is becoming a major challenge for dev teams. A survey…

Data observability startup Observe secures $70M

I assumed there was some sort of typo the last time I checked my energy bill. Honestly, it doesn’t bode well for someone who just installed a window air conditioning…

Home energy monitoring firm Sense just raised $105M

Igor Marinelli and Gabriel Lameirinhas were raised around manufacturing plants. Marinelli’s father worked for International Paper in a plant outside of São Paulo, while Lameirinhas’ father worked in a cement…

Brazilian startup Tractian gets the Y Combinator seal of approval for its equipment monitoring tech

ConstellR, a space tech startup with a technology that can monitor land surface temperatures from space, has raised a €1 million pre-seed round led by FTTF, with the participation of…

Space tech startup ConstellR, which can monitor land surface temperatures, raises €1M pre-seed round

Two months ago, Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs launched into general availability and announced a $9.15 million Series A funding round led by Benchmark, with participation from GV. Today, the…

New Relic acquires Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs

One of the most consistent pieces of advice from health organizations about COVID-19 has been that everyone do their utmost to limit contact with people who may have been exposed…

MIT and Boston Dynamics team up on ‘Dr. Spot,’ a robot for remote COVID-19 vital sign measurement

In the monitoring world, typically when you spin up a new instance, you pay a fee to monitor it. If you are particularly active in any given month, that can…

New Relic is changing its pricing model to encourage broader monitoring

Lightrun, a Tel Aviv-based startup that makes it easier for developers to debug their production code, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Glilot…

Lightrun raises $4M for its continuous debugging and observability platform

MIT researchers have been building out the capabilities of a system they created that can monitor vital signs without requiring any direct contact sensors or wearables — using wireless signals…

MIT’s new way to remotely monitor vital signs over time could help with early COVID-19 detection in care homes

MIT has developed a new type of lightweight sensor that can be integrated into flexible fabrics, including the kinds of polyesters often used in athletic wear, to provide constant monitoring…

MIT develops machine-washable sensors that embed in clothing for constant vital sign monitoring

In recent weeks, millions have started working from home, putting unheard-of pressure on services like video conferencing, online learning, food delivery and e-commerce platforms. While some verticals have seen a…

Amid shift to remote work, application performance monitoring is IT’s big moment

Epsagon, an Israeli startup that wants to help monitor modern development environments like serverless and containers, announced a $16 million Series A today. U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), a new investor,…

Epsagon scores $16M Series A to monitor modern development environments

InsightFinder, a startup from North Carolina based on 15 years of academic research, wants to bring machine learning to system monitoring to automatically identify and fix common issues. Today, the…

InsightFinder gets a $2M seed to automate outage prevention

Chronosphere, a startup from two ex-Uber engineers who helped create the open-source M3 monitoring project to handle Uber-level scale, officially launched today with the goal of building a commercial company…

Chronosphere launches with $11M Series A to build scalable, cloud-native monitoring tool

As we move from a world dominated by virtual machines to one of serverless, it changes the nature of monitoring, and vendors like New Relic certainly recognize that. This morning…

New Relic snags early-stage serverless monitoring startup IOpipe

Nearly everything about Netdata, makers of an open-source monitoring tool, defies standard thinking about startups. Consider that the founder is a polished, experienced 50-year-old executive who started his company several…

Netdata, a monitoring startup with 50-year-old founder, announces $17M Series A

Leveraging new remote sensing and monitoring technologies and the willingness of corporate insurance programs to provide more preventative treatment to reduce long-term costs, Hello Heart has raised $12 million in…

Hello Heart raises $12 million for at-home monitoring and behavioral treatment for hypertension

Serverless development has largely been a lonely pursuit until recently, but Serverless, Inc. has been offering a free framework for intrepid programmers since 2015. At first, that involved development, deployment…

Serverless, Inc. expands free Framework to include monitoring and security

Lumigo, an Israeli startup, announced a healthy $8 million seed round today, as it emerged from stealth to help companies monitor serverless architecture. Investors include Pitango Venture Capital, Grove Ventures…

Lumigo scores $8M seed to help manage serverless operations

The international electronics and medical device giant Philips is pushing further into pregnancy and childcare services by leading a $6 million early stage investment in the pregnancy-focused app-developer and device…

Electronics giant Philips invests in monitoring and information platform for expecting mothers

Epsagon, an Israeli startup, launched today with a new serverless tool that helps customers monitor infrastructure, even when they don’t know where or what that is. That’s the nature of…

Epsagon emerges from stealth with serverless monitoring tool

Snap40, a Scottish startup that has developed an AI-enabled wearable device to help health professionals monitor patients either on the hospital ward or at home, has raised $8 million in…

Snap40 raises $8M for its AI-powered patient monitoring solution

Your typical cloud monitoring service integrates with dozens of service and provides you a pretty dashboard and some automation to help you keep tabs on how your applications are doing.…

Datadog launches Watchdog to help you monitor your cloud apps