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.
Healthtech · Medtech & Devices · 200–1000 · Europe #b032_03
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We make a robotic platform for minimal access surgery, installed in hospitals on several continents. Alongside embedded robot software, we run a cloud data team serving surgeons and internal teams.
- Industry
- Healthtech · Medtech & Devices
- Size
- 200–1000 employees
- Region
- Europe
- Tools budget
- $5K–20K per month
- Needs
- Data pipelines & integration. Telemetry streams from our installed robots into the cloud, and keeping ingestion reliable across regions is a constant effort.Today: a data department streaming robot telemetry through cloud microservices into a warehouse, with graduates joining · Urgency: nowLogs & metrics at controlled cost. Device telemetry and service logs keep growing, and our monitoring spend climbs faster than the value we extract.Today: observability treated as an engineering practice on a growing cloud estate with rising device volume · Urgency: nowAnalytics & BI. Surgeons and commercial teams want procedure insights, but turning raw robot data into trusted dashboards takes too long.Today: data-driven features for surgeons built by the engineering team, extended by simulation research · Urgency: now
- Who decides
- head of data · security review
- Expects from suppliers
- Runs in our own cloud account with regional data residency; Handles high-frequency time-series device data; Clear pricing as fleet size grows
- Not a fit
- Pure marketing analytics products; Platforms that require shipping raw patient data offsite
- Stack
- cloud: AWS-class hyperscaler, data warehouse: cloud, CI/CD pipeline in place
- Buying triggers
- scaling transaction volume, cost pressure
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