Calyptia

Calyptia operates at the intersection of data management and cloud-native observability, providing enterprise-level solutions built upon popular open-source technologies. The company was founded in 2020 by Eduardo Silva and Anurag Gupta. Silva, the original creator of Fluent Bit, and Gupta, who has a background in cloud and open-source products at companies like Elastic and Microsoft Azure, co-founded Calyptia to commercialize and provide enterprise support for the widely adopted Fluentd and Fluent Bit projects. Their journey began after working together on the Fluentd project, recognizing the growing need for a robust, scalable solution to manage the deluge of telemetry data in modern IT environments.

The firm specializes in what it terms "First-Mile Observability," which focuses on collecting, processing, and routing telemetry data—logs, metrics, and traces—at its source. This approach contrasts with traditional methods that require data to be sent to a backend for analysis, offering instead immediate insights and greater control over data pipelines. Calyptia's core business revolves around its enterprise products, Calyptia Core and Calyptia Enterprise, which are built on Fluent Bit. These offerings provide a low-code, visual interface for developers to build and manage data pipelines, enabling them to filter, enrich, and redact data in-flight. This functionality helps clients, particularly those in distributed IT environments like IoT and public/private clouds, to reduce data volume sent to analytics backends, thereby controlling costs associated with observability and SIEM solutions. The business model includes subscription-based access to its software, consulting services, and support.

In March 2022, Calyptia secured $5 million in a seed funding round led by Sierra Ventures and Carbide Ventures to expand its team and further develop its software. A significant milestone occurred in January 2024 when the company was acquired by Chronosphere, a cloud-native observability platform. The acquisition integrated Calyptia's observability pipeline technology into Chronosphere's platform, aiming to enhance control over log data and reduce tool sprawl for customers. Following the acquisition, both founders and the Calyptia team joined Chronosphere, which has committed to continuing investment in the open-source Fluent Bit and Fluentd projects, which have been downloaded billions of times and are integral to platforms like Kubernetes.

Keywords: First-Mile Observability, telemetry pipeline, Fluent Bit, Fluentd, data collection, log management, observability platform, data processing, data routing, cloud-native observability, open source, telemetry data, data filtering, data enrichment, data reduction, enterprise software, SIEM optimization, Chronosphere, Eduardo Silva, Anurag Gupta, CNCF, Kubernetes logging, data pipelines, log analytics, real-time data analysis