T

he Brief

Middleware is a real-time cloud-native observability platform to bring all metrics, logs, and traces in one unified timeline to debug issues faster

Founder

Laduram Vishnoi

Y Combinator (W23) Just Launched

Launch YC: 🚀 Middleware 📊 : A unified observability platform for cloud native, microservices and distributed apps

David J. Phillips @davj / 1:30 PM PST • January 25, 2023 

Middleware has recently unveiled an innovative observability platform that seamlessly integrates metrics, logs, traces, and events into a unified timeline, allowing for real-time monitoring of distributed applications and cloud-native platforms.

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The current legacy products have certain shortcomings. Existing observability solutions, designed for monolith architectures, struggle to effectively monitor distributed and microservices systems. This leads to several issues such as a lack of in-depth information for debugging, exorbitant costs for comprehensive monitoring, and disparate data residing in various apps, making it difficult to establish cause and effect relationships.

The increased data output of cloud-native systems poses a significant challenge in gaining insight into the inner workings of applications and infrastructure. This leads to wasted engineering time in incident tracking, a constant state of alert fatigue, and ultimately, costly expenses.

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Middleware was created to address a specific issue encountered by the founder during the development of a previous startup. The challenge of monitoring microservices and Kubernetes, due to the lack of a comprehensive all-inclusive cloud monitoring tool, prompted the inception of the company.

The founder's early engineers from companies such as Splunk and Newrelic also experienced similar challenges. Through consultations with engineering and IT leaders from various organizations, it became clear that this issue was widespread. This prompted the decision to make Middleware a full-time endeavor to address this prevalent problem.

The platform offers a comprehensive solution to the challenges of cloud-native observability by providing a real-time observability platform for microservices, distributed applications, and cloud-native systems. The platform seamlessly integrates metrics, logs, traces, and events into a unified timeline, enabling dev and ops teams to quickly identify and troubleshoot issues. Additionally, its AI-powered algorithms proactively collect and analyze data from throughout the infrastructure, enabling early detection of potential problems before they occur.

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Its a comprehensive observability solution that covers a wide spectrum of monitoring needs, including infrastructure, logs, application performance (APM), synthetic monitoring, database monitoring, and real-time alerting, all at cost-effective prices.

Middleware is revolutionizing observability for the future. The company's objective is to transform the way organizations monitor their infrastructure and applications in a cost-effective manner. The company's tools offer a comprehensive solution for addressing issues swwiftly, while also managing the growth of observability data. They provide real-time visibility into cloud-native infrastructure, applications, and business.

  • Vendor Agnostic: using & contributing to Open Telemetry
  • Store only the data that you need to minimize costs
  • Correlate the traces from the browser to the front end and back end with logs and metrics
  • Use AI to predict any anomaly and possible downtime

Experience the benefits of Middleware and share your thoughts with them. They love working with other companies in the YC community and welcome feedback. Describe your specific use cases to them, as they are efficient in creating customized solutions quickly. Schedule a call with the founder to discuss further. If you are incurring excessive costs for your observability needs, Middleware would be delighted to significantly reduce expenses by a factor of 2-3 times.


Posted 
January 25, 2023
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