SAN FRANCISCO, DECEMBER 15, 2022 – CtrlStack, the industry’s first DevOps observability platform based on a causal graph, emerged from stealth today with USD 5.2 million in initial investment headed by Sequoia Capital and Engineering Capital, with Kearny Jackson, Webb Investment Network, and Lightspeed also participating. Dev Nag is the CEO and founder of the firm.
Dev is no new to IT monitoring and analytics, having previously served as the founder and CTO of Wavefront, a premier observability startup purchased by VMware. He possesses more than a dozen patents in machine learning, observability, and security. Dev and the CtrlStack team are working to create a consistent experience for debugging complex, distributed systems.
Businesses are under enormous pressure to create digital services and apps as quickly as possible. A combination of code, infrastructure, and operations determines the performance of an application in production. When an incident happens, teams must rapidly assess whether the problem is due to changes in code, infrastructure, operational activities, or a mix of these factors.
Despite this, existing ways to debug complex issues are complicated, laborious, and fragmented – enterprises still require hours or days to minimize and resolve crises and outages. According to a recent DEJ research, 76% of all performance issues can be traced back to environmental changes, and 66% of MTTR is spent identifying the difference creating a problem.
CtrlStack aims to ease real-time troubleshooting, allowing DevOps teams to embrace change without fear of botched deployments. CtrlStack is the only observability solution that connects cause and effect by tracking system changes and relationships throughout the stack, generating a knowledge graph of all the infrastructure, associated services, and change effects.’
“The monitoring and observability field continues to rely primarily on human-driven workflows and fragmented data, which is not sustainable given the complexity and frequent change in DevOps settings,” stated Dev Nag, CEO of CtrlStack. “We must reinvent how we practice observability so teams can troubleshoot in real time, not hours or days. Building data connections is only the first step at CtrlStack in employing machine learning and generative AI to automate.
Sequoia Capital Partner Bill Coughran stated: “To remain competitive, every organization must provide a faultless digital experience. Dev and the CtrlStack team have radically altered the game for developers by adding simplicity and efficiency to the monitoring and observability process, eliminating time-consuming guessing and resulting in a shorter MTTR. We are thrilled to be working with them and seeing their vision for the next-generation observability stack come to fruition.”
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