Observe vs Insomnia
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San Mateo AI observability treating telemetry as structured data resources; $393M total ($145M Evolution Equity/Madrona Series B Sep 2024) from Sutter Hill Ventures founding with 50+ customers competing with Datadog for cloud-native observability.
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Observe Inc. is a San Mateo, California-based AI-powered observability platform — backed with approximately $393 million in total funding including a $145 million Series B in September 2024 led by Evolution Equity Partners with Madrona Ventures, plus Sutter Hill Ventures' founding investment — providing enterprise engineering and operations teams with a cloud-native observability solution that treats telemetry data as a structured data problem, curating logs, metrics, and traces into typed "resources" (users, sessions, help desk tickets, software builds, and other business objects) that enable sophisticated root-cause analysis and cross-stack troubleshooting beyond what traditional observability tools provide. Serving 50+ customers including Upstart Financial, OpenGov, and TopGolf, Observe is led by CEO Jeremy Burton (former C-suite at Oracle, Symantec, EMC, and Dell) with co-founders from Splunk, Snowflake, Wavefront, and Roblox. Founded in 2017 (Sutter Hill Ventures company).
Kong-acquired (2019) open-source API testing and development platform with 1M+ users; Insomnia 10 added AI Runner, competing with Postman for the API client developer tooling market.
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Insomnia is an open-source API development and testing platform that provides developers with a powerful client for designing, debugging, and testing REST, GraphQL, SOAP, and WebSocket APIs — offering an intuitive interface for crafting API requests, inspecting responses, organizing API collections, and writing automated tests without the complexity of commercial alternatives. Founded in 2014 by Gregory Schier in Victoria, Canada, Insomnia was acquired by Kong (the leading API management company) in October 2019 and has grown to over 1 million users as of September 2024.
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