Kubernetes tooling provider Komodor Ltd. today announced that it has closed a $42 million funding round led by Tiger Global. 

The round also included the participation of a half-dozen other investors. Among them was Accel, which led Komodor’s previous $25 million round last June.

Tel Aviv-based Komodor provides a software platform that helps companies run their Kubernetes environments more efficiently. In particular, the startup promises to simplify the task of detecting and troubleshooting technical issues. Komodor says its platform enables engineers to fix technical issues faster, thereby limiting the impact of an outage on users.

Companies use Kubernetes to manage their software container applications. Kubernetes automatically increases and decreases the amount of infrastructure assigned to an application as its requirements change. If a workload experiences a malfunction, the platform can repair it. Kubernetes also automates a variety of related tasks that developers would otherwise have to perform manually. 

Thanks to the large number of automation features that it provides, Kubernetes greatly simplifies the management of containerized applications. However, Kubernetes itself is highly complicated precisely because it includes such a large number of features. As a result, troubleshooting errors that emerge in the software can be time-consuming.

Komodor has developed a platform that speeds up the task. The platform collects data from a company’s Kubernetes deployment, as well as other internal systems such as the software development tools used by engineers to build applications. Komodor analyzes this data to automatically detect technical issues.

“There’s a real challenge with day two operations when it comes to Kubernetes,” said Komodor co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Itiel Shwartz. “Troubleshooting Kubernetes and resolving incidents at scale can be overwhelmingly complex. Komodor’s platform bakes in all of the necessary intelligence and expertise required to make any engineer a seasoned Kubernetes operator.”

According to Komodor, its platform can spot outages and erroneous configuration settings. The platform also detects more fine-grained errors, such as application performance bottlenecks. After detecting a technical issue, Komodor identifies the root cause and generates a recommendation on how to fix it.

Kubernetes malfunctions are often the result of a faulty update to infrastructure settings or applications. Komodor provides insight into the updates that are made to a company’s Kubernetes environment over time, which can help developers speed up the troubleshooting process. The startup also highlights cases where a malfunction in one software component may lead other components to experience errors as well.

Komodor’s platform is gaining traction among information technology teams. The startup says its revenue increased 700% over the past nine months, but didn’t share absolute numbers. Komodor’s headcount tripled to 50 employees in the same time frame.

Komodor will use its latest funding round to further grow its workforce with a goal of reaching 100 employees by year’s end. Additionally, the startup is planning several product enhancements. Komodor intends to roll out a streamlined user onboarding workflow and expand the number of maintenance tasks that its platform simplifies for customers.

According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the industry group that maintains Kubernetes, the number of developers using the container orchestration platform jumped 67% last year. The increasing use of Kubernetes in the enterprise could help create more demand for tools that make the platform easier to use.

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