There’s no shortage of tools promising to help organizations analyze the vast quantities of data coming off their on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure, but a newly launched startup called Jut Inc. thinks that there’s room for another. Its namesake analytics service is entering public beta testing this morning with a promise to pick up where the competition falls short.

And more specifically, provide a complete understanding of operations without the need to learn and implement multiple technologies. That is an oft-repeated pitch in the log management space these days, with several other startups offering the same combination of search and visualization capabilities that Jut is touting.

The differentiation lies in how its new service goes about delivering that functionality. At the heart of the value proposition is a native data manipulation language called Juttle that borrows a page out of the Google book of unified processing and makes it possible to use the same syntax for historical and real-time analysis.

That means a user could leverage Jut to automatically extract a particular application’s performance history from past logs and use that dataset as a reference against which to monitor new activity for technical problems. That visibility can be extended to output from other workloads as well, which opens the door to highly advanced use cases spanning multiple processes and environments.

Of course, such multidimensional analysis doesn’t come easily. While it may be able to handle operations that would have once required mastering several different tools, Juttle still necessities the specialized skills needed to assemble complex analytic pipelines. That represents a departure from the focus on simplicity of rivals such as Logentries Inc. and Loggly Inc., which announced an analytics update of its own last week.

That reflects the fact Jut is specifically targeting cloud providers, large financial institutions and other organizations with the necessary operational resources to not only adopt something like Juttle but also use it to the fullest potential in their environments. The company sees its software finding use with everyone from the operations professionals in charge maintaining those companies’ infrastructure to the developers building the applications running on top.

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