In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, software companies are facing unprecedented complexity in monitoring and tracing their data architecture. The traditional tools used for monitoring and tracing have not kept pace with the rapid evolution of cloud-native systems and distributed architectures. This has led to a significant challenge for engineering teams in identifying the root cause of errors and latency issues. Eden Federman, an Israeli developer, recognized this problem and co-founded Odigos, a startup that solves this issue by providing an enterprise-grade distributed tracing solution.
Odigos addresses the need for large-scale enterprises to easily monitor complex, cloud-native systems that handle massive amounts of data. The company leverages OpenTelemetry, an open-source observability framework, and eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter), a technology that allows developers to write programs that run directly in the Linux operating system. This combination enables automated distributed tracing without impacting performance or requiring code changes.
The Odigos solution is particularly valuable for large enterprises, which often have thousands of applications or microservices that require manual tracing. By using Odigos, these companies can avoid the significant performance overhead and manual effort required to implement distributed tracing manually.
The Odigos team, led by co-founders Eden Federman and Ari Recht, has made significant contributions to the open-source community, and their commercial offering is built upon this foundation. While their open-source version of Odigos works well for single Kubernetes clusters, their enterprise edition supports multiple environments.
One of the key differentiators of Odigos is its ability to work seamlessly with existing application performance monitoring tools, such as Datadog, Dynatrace, SigNoz, and Honeycomb. This allows large enterprises to implement distributed tracing without having to change their existing toolset.
Odigos has received significant recognition, including a $13 million funding round led by Venture Guide, and participation from top investors such as Lightstep co-founder Ben Sigelman and Honeycomb CEO Christine Yen. The company is poised to make a significant impact in the observability market, revolutionizing the way large-scale enterprises monitor and trace their complex systems.
With Odigos’ solution, large enterprises can finally unlock the secrets of distributed tracing, gaining real-time insights into their systems and reducing errors and latency issues. As the company continues to develop its solution and expand its go-to-market strategy, Odigos is poised to become a leader in the observability space.
