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Data engine for observability, cut down your cloud observability bill by up to 90%.

Joined September 2023
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Observability stacks make you choose: fast analytics or fast search. So we built one engine for both. Analytical Search: CtrlB won all 43 ClickBench queries against ClickHouse. Full-text Search: won all 8 tests on 5 TB of cold logs with a 16 GiB index vs 282 GiB.
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Honestly, we built this as an internal tool. Every incident, we’d point an LLM at logs and it would either choke on volume or we’d grep them down so much we’d lose the one line that mattered. Kept happening, so we built something to squash noise before anyone had to read it.
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Wasn't trying to build a product, just got tired of doing the same manual trimming every week. Once we had it working on our own logs it was kind of obvious other people debugging with LLMs were hitting the exact same wall, so we cleaned it up and put it out there.
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𝐂𝐭𝐫𝐥𝐁 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 $𝟐.𝟓𝐌 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡. Led by @ChirataeVC, and joined by Equirus, Campus Fund, PointOne Capital, and notable angels backing us. We’re building a unified data lake for logs, metrics, traces, and security events, powering: - Lightning-fast search, based on our proprietary inverted index - Compression tech designed to cut storage cost - Better telemetry retention at lower spend - Lower MTTR for every engineering team Thank you to our customers, partners, and especially the team. We’re just getting started. See what we’re building at ctrlb.ai #SeedFunding #Observability #DataLake #Telemetry #SearchEngine #CloudNative #DevOps #SiteReliability #FutureOfSearch
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At CtrlB, we debate, build, break things (and fix them even faster). We obsess over indexes, query speeds, and the million tiny details that make observability smarter and actually fun. Things are about to get interesting. Here's a sneak peek into our little universe:
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