[Re]defining Observability for the AI Era, with $156M Series C Funding
Today, we’re proud to share that Observe has closed $156M in Series C funding. It’s a major step forward in our mission to reshape software development for the AI age through Observability. This moment signals more than growth — it’s the start of a new chapter for a stagnant industry ready for change.
Let’s be honest: observability at scale is a mess. Siloed tools, runaway data volumes, and sky-high bills. You send logs one way, traces another, metrics somewhere else, and then scramble to stitch it all together during an outage, paying premium prices for the privilege.
As an industry, we’re generating 10x more telemetry data than just a few years ago. Legacy vendors expect your budget to grow 10x too.
At any meaningful level of scale, the legacy model breaks. It punishes adoption. It reduces visibility. It turns observability into a cost center. Worst of all, it slows down engineers.
Observe was the first Observability vendor to build an O11y Data Lake. We’re not simply ingesting logs, metrics and traces with OpenTelemetry, we’re compressing and storing them in an open Apache Iceberg format. It’s not only cheaper, there is no lock in through proprietary formats. For the first time ever, customers can now own their telemetry data - not Observe, not anyone.
