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 a $5.5 million seed round.
The idea behind Metrist is simple, but few companies do it. While products like StatusPage allow companies to easily communicate issues with their services to their users, they don't always reflect every problem and service degradation Performance monitoring and observability tools like New Relic can give you some data, but it is not their main use case.
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Jeff said that apps are built on top of other apps. If one of them goes down or has an issue, you can potentially have the same fate as your business. Current observability tools don't do anything special for external dependency You can find out about your external dependency, but the challenge is that you have to hold your vendors accountable.
Metrist wants to become the neutral player that buyers and vendors can refer to when they have an issue. When Metrists is written into a contract, it will be a success.
Steve Klein said that too many of the incidents posted to StatusPage simply reference upstream or third party providers. Metrist is going after the root of the problem in order to create visibility.
The Metrist team is made up of people.
Metrist uses an agent or eBPF to gather data about the services a company runs, but it also checks for downtime and service degradations from 21 different cloud regions. Customers can host their own tests or use in-app tests if they choose to do so. The tests go far beyond simply checking for a correct response code, according to the team.
It isn't just like saying "does this URL return to 200 or 202?" Ryan Duffield, co-founder and CTO of Metrist, said that they would call the retrievalAPI later to see how long it took to create that thing.
When and how customers are notified of an issue is a lot of flexibility. For some, a two-percent increase in latency may be unacceptable, while for others, that isn't a problem. Users can use webhooks to create their own alert systems.
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The team raised this amount over two different raises, including a pre-seed before the product existed. The team didn't actually go out to raise either. The funding environment changed just before this occurred.
The approach to observability hasn't changed despite the fact that modern applications depend on an ever increasing number of cloud products managed by external vendors. Heavybit general partner Joseph Ruscio said that you wouldn't want to operate your internal services blindly and you need to manage your cloud dependency with the same care. It is possible to know when an external service is down with the goal of avoiding or mitigate incidents stemming from dependency. Metrist's approach to third-party observability ensures teams know when they aren't meeting their obligations.
You can monitor up to three services with a single day of data retention. Seven services and seven days of data retention are included in the price of a paid plan.
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