Observability / APM
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eBPF-based zero-instrumentation observability that runs in your own cloud, pitched explicitly as the anti-Datadog for cost and privacy.
- Category
- Observability / APM
- License
- Proprietary
- Deployment
- SaaS or self-hosted
- Cost
- Medium
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Moderate
- Maturity
- Rising
- Popularity
- Fast-rising challenger; $35M raised 2025
The catch
Per-node + BYOC means YOU run and pay for the storage/compute in your account — the "no data-volume bill" savings partly shift into your own infra and ops, and eBPF gives less code-level depth than SDK APM.
Monitors
ServersMetricsLogsTracesK8sCloud
Capabilities
AlertingDashboardsDistributed tracingAPI
Built for
SRE / DevOpsMid-market
The honest take
One of the names you probably hadn’t heard — eBPF auto-instrumentation, runs in your own cloud, priced per node. The pitch is “Datadog without the bill”; the honest version is that some of that bill just moves into your own AWS account.