OpsClarity

OpsClarity was a specialized operations analytics and monitoring company founded in 2013 by Dhruv Jain, who served as CEO, and Amit Sasturkar, the CTO. The founding team was composed of veterans from prominent technology companies such as Yahoo, eBay, Twitter, and Google, who brought extensive experience in data science, large-scale systems engineering, and data visualization. Their collective expertise, backed by nearly 50 patents in machine learning and data science, was pivotal in shaping the company's core technology.

The firm developed an Intelligent Operations Platform designed for DevOps teams to monitor, visualize, and troubleshoot complex, web-scale application environments. OpsClarity's platform addressed the challenges of managing modern software architectures by using a data-science-driven approach to ingest and analyze vast amounts of metrics and event data in real-time. A key feature was its ability to dynamically learn every component of a client's infrastructure, creating an "Operational Knowledge Graph" that mapped hosts, containers, and services. This system automatically detected anomalies, correlated failures, and provided guided troubleshooting, which simplified operations for complex frameworks like Apache Kafka, Spark, and Cassandra.

The company's target market consisted of enterprises and DevOps professionals dealing with the complexities of distributed systems and microservices-based applications. By providing end-to-end visibility and proactive insights, OpsClarity enabled these organizations to minimize downtime and optimize performance. The business model was centered on providing its intelligent monitoring solution to companies that were increasingly investing in real-time data analysis. The company successfully raised $22.1 million in funding over two rounds, with a significant Series A round of $11 million in 2015 led by New Enterprise Associates. On February 8, 2017, OpsClarity was acquired by Lightbend, marking a successful exit for the venture.

Keywords: operations analytics, application monitoring, DevOps, data science, infrastructure monitoring, anomaly detection, microservices monitoring, streaming analytics, Operational Knowledge Graph, web-scale applications, Dhruv Jain, Amit Sasturkar, Lightbend acquisition, real-time data analysis, application performance management, log analysis, container monitoring, cloud monitoring, distributed systems, troubleshooting platform