ControlTheory, controllability for observability, is emerging from stealth, announcing it has raised $5 million in seed funding to support the launch of its Observability Control Platform that enables technology leaders to regain control of their observability through cost control, operational control, and adaptive control.
The funding round was secured from Silverton Partners, an Austin-based venture capital firm.
Observability has grown increasingly costly and complex, locking organizations into proprietary solutions and overwhelming them with data silos.
According to the company, ControlTheory flips the script by introducing controllability—the active management of observability—to cut costs while increasing operational value.
Controllability allows organizations to optimize their existing observability tools and platforms without replacing them.
“Observability cost management is a top concern for organizations today,” said Bob Quillin, CEO and co-founder of ControlTheory. "Affordability requires controllability to first get costs under control and second to prevent future overages and spikes. But we believe observability should be more—i t should be an enabler, not a burden. Controllability not only helps you cut observability costs but also empowers observability where it falls short today, sharpening root cause detection, unlocking new insights, and improving operations with the agility to respond to change.”
ControlTheory’s Observability Control Platform delivers:
- Cost Control: detecting spikes, reducing metric cardinality, intelligently rerouting and filtering logs and traces, avoiding vendor lock-in, using open standards
- Operational Control: sharpening root cause and anomaly detections by increasing signal, decreasing noise through intelligent sampling, illuminating current telemetry through observability “Meta-Metrics”
- Adaptive Control: Elastic Telemetry Pipelines use dynamic feedback loops to govern through policy for continuous improvement and adjustment, auto-scaling telemetry up or down for new releases and iterative troubleshooting without having to change your code
Powered by OpenTelemetry, ControlTheory integrates with any existing instrumentation and observability tools, future-proofing control and avoiding vendor lock-in.
ControlTheory’s Observability Control Platform is now available for early access. Unlike existing observability and telemetry pipeline tools, ControlTheory is not priced by telemetry volume or ingest. Instead, it is based on control layer components such as control planes and agents, the company said.
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