OpenObserve, the modern observability platform delivering 140x lower storage costs with zero database management, today announced a $10 million Series A financing round led by Nexus Venture Partners and Dell Technologies Capital. Both lead investors participated in the company's seed round and preemptively funded this round, driven by their strong conviction in the company's momentum and enterprise traction.
Over 6,000 organizations actively using OpenObserve, including many Fortune 100 companies.
Open-source project has over 18,000 GitHub stars.
Platform delivers 140x lower storage costs with zero database management.
AI capabilities include AI-SRE (autonomous layer), MCP support, and LLM observability.
Expansions include new availability in U.S. West and European Union, plus Microsoft Azure hosting.
Named Shani Shoham as chief revenue officer.
Legacy platforms like the Prometheus-Grafana and ELK stacks force organizations to split observability across multiple tools, imposing data retention limits and requiring context switching between interfaces to get a complete picture. OpenObserve replaces that fragmentation with a single high-performance platform that ingests logs, metrics and traces, as well as real user monitoring (RUM), pipelines, visualization, incident management, anomaly detection and more, while applying embedded AI to understand and act upon these inputs in real time. OpenObserve simplifies the complexity of the AI-native world with a single, high-performance observability platform that transforms raw telemetry into autonomous action, enabling companies to move from firefighting to proactive, autonomous operations (Observability 3.0) and build the products that drive their businesses forward.
OpenObserve's new suite of AI capabilities includes an AI site reliability engineer (AI-SRE), an autonomous layer that transforms raw telemetry into operational intelligence, without requiring engineering teams to manually sort signal from noise. Also included in that suite are MCP support and LLM observability, making AI monitoring and evals another layer that OpenObserve supports on top of frontend, backend, API, network, servers, security, and more. The new capital will be used to scale go-to-market actions and to support a growing customer base. The company will build on recent expansions including OpenObserve's Observability 3.0 vision of predictive analytics and autonomous observability, increased regional footprint with new availability in the U.S. West and the European Union, and added hosting support on Microsoft Azure.
About OpenObserve
OpenObserve is the open-source modern observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces and real user monitoring with 140x lower storage costs and zero database management. Built on S3-native Parquet architecture, OpenObserve delivers enterprise-grade observability without the operational complexity and escalating costs of legacy platforms. Founded in 2022 and based in Menlo Park, California, OpenObserve serves customers globally.
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