Directory

Observability startup ecosystem

We track 3 organisations in this sector across 2+ countries.

3 entries.

Axoflow

Budapest, Hungary · Startup

Founded by the creator of syslog-ng, Axoflow provides an observability and security-data routing layer for modern SOC teams. The platform helps enterprises filter, transform, and route telemetry intelligently to reduce SIEM cost pressure and improve incident investigation performance.

Better Stack

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Better Stack is a Prague-founded observability platform built by engineers for engineers, led by Juraj Masar (CEO) and Veronika Kolejak (COO). The company is known for combining speed, lower cost, and strong product design in a unified stack that covers uptime monitoring, log management, incident response, and status pages. Its technical positioning emphasizes standard SQL over proprietary query languages and high-performance analytics on ClickHouse-based infrastructure. Better Stack's January 2024 Series A and extension brought total funding to about $28.6M, with Creandum, KAYA Ventures, and Susa Ventures among key investors plus notable angels from Box, Flexport, Neo4j, Yelp, Codecademy, and UiPath. Publicly shared company metrics reported more than 200,000 developers and 4,000+ customers, and by 2026 Better Stack is widely viewed as one of the strongest Czech global DevTools contenders.

Nicole van der Hoeven

Budapest, Hungary · Person

Senior developer advocate at Grafana Labs specialising in performance testing and observability, having joined through the k6 load-testing project. A long-standing voice in the testing community, she is an announced keynote speaker at HUSTEF 2026 in Budapest.