observability

observability.com · San Francisco, United States of America

Observability Inc. provides a cloud-based platform that helps organizations monitor, analyze, and optimize their data pipelines and analytics workloads, with a focus on improving data reliability and performance. The company serves data engineering and analytics teams by offering tools for real-time visibility into data flows and system behavior. It generates revenue through subscription-based SaaS licenses and related services.

  • Observability & Monitoring
  • Data Integration & ETL
  • Cloud Infrastructure & Hosting
Revenue
$3.5M
Employees
25
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States of America

What 12 Arbolus experts think of observability

NPS scores are strongly positive, with ~80% of experts rating 9–10 and the remainder providing positive but lower NPS (6–8). Renewal intent is extremely high for all high spenders and Influencers, indicating strong platform stickiness especially among enterprise users. Most experts report being in the 'MoreThan1Year' implementation stage, with only one expert at 'LessThan1Year'. Key themes in qualitative feedback emphasize faster incident diagnosis, ease of correlation, measurable reliability impact, but also reference cost, alert noise, and effort for instrumentation as cons. The overall pattern is durability and satisfaction at scale, with some concerns about value optimization.Overall Customer Sentiment: Positive

Who reviewed observability

Total customers 12 12 current · 0 former
Reviews growth +12 in six months
Seniority of respondents
  • C-Suite 50% (6)
  • Director 42% (5)
  • Manager 8% (1)
Revenue Leader C-Suite NPS 9 Will renew
Data Leader C-Suite NPS 9 Will renew
Data Analyst Director NPS 8

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Sentiment

58 Net Promoter Score, from 12 scored reviews
  • Promoters 8
  • Passives 3
  • Detractors 1

Cumulative NPS by month

+1 over 3 months
  • Apr 8
  • May 9
  • Sep 9

Net Promoter Score across 9 reviews, accumulated up to each month. Category median 36 across 9 companies.

Praised

  • Critical to Production Reliability
  • Faster Diagnosis and Recovery
  • Proactive Capacity and Release Management
  • Further OpenTelemetry Integration

Criticised

  • Competitive Vendor Evaluation
  • Risk of Lock-in and Portability Concerns
  • AI and Native Cloud Competition
  • Operational Burden and Lock-in Risks

What customers say

Critical to Production Reliability
“I rely on observability to detect, understand, and prevent failures, providing evidence for critical availability, performance, and reliability outcomes.”
Faster Diagnosis and Recovery
“I find that correlating metrics, logs, and traces during incidents reduces both detection time and recovery time, directly helping keep systems operational.”
Proactive Capacity and Release Management
“I track SLOs, capacity, and release impact using observability, enabling safer deployments and more reliable service delivery.”

Renewal intent

Plan to renew 75%
  • Will renew 6
  • Undecided 2
  • Not renewing 0

Plan to renew, by seniority

  • C-Suite 75% 4 answers
  • Director 67% 3 answers
  • Manager 100% 1 answer
  • 9.2/10 Average score from customers who will renew
  • 6.5/10 Average score from undecided customers

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