CtrlStack Inc., the provider of a novel DevOps observability platform to simplify real-time troubleshooting, today announced its launch from stealth with $5.2 million in seed funding co-led by Sequoia Capital and Engineering Capital.

The seed round also saw participation from Kearny Jackson, Webb Investment Network and Lightspeed.

Today’s digital-first businesses and developers continue to find themselves delivering applications and features faster than ever. To get this done, software development and information technology operations teams to work closely together, forming what is called DevOps. When incidents occur, they can happen in any number of systems related to the digital environment including code, infrastructure or operations, or some combination of changes made to any of them.

CtrlStack’s platform works by tracking relationships between components in a customer’s systems, thus connecting cause and effect to simplify troubleshooting and speed up the process of determining the root cause of an incident. By empowering DevOps teams to do real-time troubleshooting, developers and engineers can feel more confident about the changes that they make.

“The monitoring and observability space still relies heavily on human-driven workflows and fragmented data, which is not sustainable given the complexity and constant changes in DevOps environments,” said CtrlStack Chief Executive Dev Nag. “We have to reimagine how we practice observability so teams can troubleshoot in real time, not in hours or days.”

By forming a knowledge graph of all the infrastructure, interconnected services and change impact, CtrlStack can deliver the ability to track system changes and relationships across the entire system stack. This means that DevOps teams can view dependencies, the potential effect of changes and analyze events in real time.

Key features of the platform include an event timeline that allows teams to browse and filter change events, without needing to sift through log files or survey users, and a knowledge graph that gives insights into operational data. Both of these features also drive dashboards for developers and DevOps teams.

Developers get access to a “change impact” dashboard that provides end-to-end visibility for any changes to code commits, configuration files or feature flags with one click. DevOps teams get a dashboard for root cause analysis that allows them to capture all the context at the moment they occurred with a searchable timeline of dependencies showing the entire impacted topology and impacted metrics.

The platform allows teams to source data from a large variety of sources including common DevOps tools, Amazon Web Services and Kubernetes events, PagerDuty events, config files and more.

In combination with the launch, CtrlStack’s platform is now available for customers in beta, with signups available on the website.

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