Calyptia, the first-mile data observability platform, has closed a seed funding round of $5 million led by Sierra Ventures and Carbide Ventures. Building on the advances of open source projects Fluent Bit and Fluentd, Calyptia brings to market a comprehensive enterprise solution to enable any organization to manage observability data at scale and receive immediate insight into their systems’ performance.

Calyptia’s flagship solution, Calyptia Enterprise for Fluent Bit, includes extensive developer toolsets to simplify enterprise adoption and integrates seamlessly with existing observability backends to both improve systems analytics and reduce cost.

First-mile observability refers to Calyptia’s ability to collect and analyze data at its source and provide immediate insight into system performance. It’s different from traditional observability solutions that require data to be fully routed to back-end “last mile” storage before centralized analysis and reporting can take place.

The conventional approach no longer serves enterprise customers who are working with distributed IT, including IoT and edge applications across public and private cloud environments. As the company puts it, only first-mile observability has the speed and scale to support these dynamic systems.