Telemetry from our many production clusters keeps growing faster than the budget we set for observability. We want to keep what matters for debugging while cutting noise and storage spend. A good solution must handle huge distributed fleets, offer clear, predictable pricing, let us choose how long data is kept, and keep all data inside our regions.
DevTools · Data Platforms · 50–200 · Europe #b018_20
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We provide a platform for large-scale search, recommendation and AI retrieval, available as open source and as a managed cloud service.
- Industry
- DevTools & Software · Data Platforms
- Size
- 50–200 employees
- Region
- Europe
- Tools budget
- $1K–5K per month
- Needs
- Incident management & on-call. Our globally distributed cloud needs better on-call, incident handling and automation as customer load grows.Today: site reliability engineers run on-call and automation for the managed cloud, extending the team · Urgency: this yearLLM evaluation & testing. We constantly evaluate new models and retrieval techniques, and benchmarking them consistently takes too much manual work.Today: applied ai engineers build their own benchmarks and rerank experiments by hand · Urgency: nowLogs & metrics at controlled cost. Telemetry from many production clusters is growing faster than our observability budget.Today: metrics exposed through an open monitoring interface and exported to customers' own tools · Urgency: later
- Who decides
- vp engineering · team trial
- Expects from suppliers
- Handles large distributed systems; Strong on-call workflow; Transparent pricing
- Not a fit
- Tools requiring data to leave our regions
- Stack
- multi-cloud, Kubernetes, LLM APIs in production, CI/CD pipeline in place
- Buying triggers
- AI adoption push, scaling transaction volume
Needs
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We wish for a lightweight paging and escalation tool built for small rotations running stateful services. It should spread load fairly, protect people from burnout, and capture post-incident notes with almost no effort. We would judge it by a trial: does it work equally across rented hardware and cloud, and does it fit our code-defined setup?
We want AI coding help for our auditors, but the code we review belongs to clients and cannot leave our control. A good solution runs self-hosted or in a private deployment, never trains on our data, and has clear retention rules. Licensing must suit a small expert team, not large enterprise seat minimums. We are ready to trial now.
We ship AI replies that pull from each customer's own knowledge base, and right now our engineers judge draft quality by hand. It doesn't scale. We need a lightweight way to score retrieval and answer quality on the customer's own content before replies reach end users. No dedicated ML staff to run it, and pricing must be predictable.
We wish for an observability tool that treats device telemetry differently from service logs, with tiering that keeps recent high-frequency data hot and compresses the rest automatically. It must run inside our own cloud account with regional residency. We would judge it by cost per device as our fleet grows, query speed on old data, and pricing we can predict.
Every new customer means our analysts read long plan documents and re-key benefit details into structured data by hand. It slows onboarding and invites mistakes. A good solution must pull values from insurance plan summaries, flag low-confidence fields for human review, and validate against known plan rules. Plain OCR does not help us.
Our engineers across several countries lose hours chasing issues through chains of APIs, because each team owns its own dashboards and nobody sees one request end to end. We want tracing that builds on open telemetry standards, works on managed containers, handles many tenants at scale, and lets teams adopt it step by step without ripping out what they have.
We run machine learning models for pricing and member engagement, deployed as services by data engineers, and checks before release are left to each team. We want one disciplined evaluation routine that works alongside actuarial staff, keeps an audit trail of model decisions, and runs inside our own cloud tenancy. Insurance references matter.
Our multi-tenant service produces heavy telemetry, and monitoring cost climbs with every new region we open. Our reliability engineers run the clusters themselves, and the bill is starting to hurt. A good solution must cut ingest and storage spend, keep per-tenant visibility, work across several clouds, and stay light for a lean team.
We added live calling to a product that began as email, and our on-call process was built for slow, asynchronous work. Now an outage means customers on active calls hear silence. We need paging that routes across engineers in distant time zones, ties directly into a public status page, and keeps responders and customers informed together. Point tools that only page people do not help us.
We wish for evaluation tooling built for regulated advice. It would score our model's explanations of portfolio decisions against clear criteria, flag unsupported claims, and route doubtful outputs to a human reviewer with an audit trail. We would judge it by how fast a small team can trial it, how well it catches errors staff review finds, and whether it never trains on our data.
Our telemetry from new sites and cloud services is outgrowing our observability budget. We're stitching logging, monitoring and alerting from basic parts, and costs climb faster than our visibility. A good solution must let us control data volume and retention, expose everything through APIs, and scale across new sites without repricing fights or long lock-in before proving value.
Our claims and fraud handlers keep repeating the same manual lookups across systems, which eats time better spent on judgement. We want agents that automate those lookups safely, with clear audit trails, human approval on sensitive actions, and tight access controls. Insurance experience matters. Who has handled this well in regulated claims environments?