Opscruise

OpsCruise provides a performance assurance platform for cloud-native applications, targeting DevOps, ITOps, and SRE teams in large enterprises. The company was founded in 2018 by Scott Fulton, Aloke Guha, and Shridhar Venkatraman, and was co-created with The Fabric, a Silicon Valley startup foundry. The founding team possesses deep expertise in enterprise software and infrastructure. Fulton, the CEO, has over 25 years of experience in IT operations and service management, holding leadership roles at BMC, HP Software, and Infoblox. Guha, the CTO, is an experienced entrepreneur with a background in Big Data and IoT at Hitachi and holds 28 patents. Venkatraman also serves as a co-founder.

The company's core offering is an open observability platform designed specifically for the complexities of Kubernetes and serverless environments. It addresses the operational challenges of monitoring dynamic, modern applications where traditional tools often fail. The platform operates as a "smart layer" that ingests and analyzes data from open-source monitoring tools (like Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger) and cloud provider instrumentation. By leveraging contextual AI and machine learning, OpsCruise automates the process of identifying performance degradations, performing causal analysis, and predicting issues before they impact users. Key features include real-time topology mapping using eBPF-based flow, a "TracePath" technology to simplify distributed tracing for infrastructure teams, and a "time travel" capability that provides snapshots of past application states to diagnose problems rooted in changes like auto-scaling.

OpsCruise generates revenue through a SaaS subscription model, with pricing based on the number of Kubernetes nodes monitored. The business strategy focuses on freeing clients from expensive, proprietary data collection agents by integrating with the existing open-source telemetry stack. This approach aims to deliver faster mean time to resolution (MTTR) and reduce false positives at a lower cost than legacy systems. The company secured $5 million in a seed funding round in February 2021, led by The Fabric, with participation from firms like First Rays Venture Partners and Impact Ventures. A significant milestone was being named a "Cool Vendor" by Gartner for Observability and Monitoring in 2022. In June 2023, OpsCruise was acquired by Virtana, an IT operations management company, to enhance Virtana's hybrid cloud observability capabilities.

Keywords: cloud observability, Kubernetes monitoring, application performance assurance, AIOps, cloud-native observability, performance degradation, root cause analysis, DevOps, SRE, IT operations, serverless monitoring, microservices monitoring, distributed tracing, anomaly detection, machine learning, eBPF, predictive analytics, autonomous operations, hybrid cloud management, infrastructure monitoring, Virtana