Nishant Modak
Founder at last9. loves building dev tools and listening to the beatles.
Stop Flying Blind: Synthetic Monitoring, Host heat-maps, and Process-Level Visibility
Most teams learn about outages from customers. Synthetic monitoring, host heat-maps, and AI streaming help you know before being told.
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Last9 Named a Gartner® Cool Vendor in AI for SRE and Observability
Gartner recognizes Last9 in their latest Cool Vendor report for unified telemetry and agentic SDK—moving teams from reactive monitoring to proactive ops.
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From Cloud Native to AI Native: Why Your Observability Stack Needs to Speak Agent
Your production telemetry now speaks agent: ask questions in Slack, debug in VS Code, optimize in real-time. Same data, conversational interface.
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Your Apps Are Green. Your Infrastructure Is Dying.
Infra problems hide behind green dashboards. Discover Infrastructure monitors K8s and hosts from the same telemetry—unified visibility, AI-powered debugging.
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Your APIs Are Green. Your Background Jobs Are Dying.
Background jobs fail silently while your APIs look healthy. Discover Jobs gives async operations the same deep visibility as APIs—automatic detection, operation-level debugging.
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The Service Discovery Problem Every Developer Knows (But Pretends Doesn't Exist)
New services deploy faster than you can track them. Discover Services auto-discovers your entire architecture from traces—convention over configuration. No manual catalogs.
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Last9 MCP Server: Fix Production Issues in Your Local Environment
Ask your agent to bring production context to your local environment, debug issues, and fix them. Sit back and vibe monitor.
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Software Observability from the Lens of Radar and a Black Box
Observability is often a misunderstood and misused term. It has come to mean nothing and everything at this point. Read more on how Observability can be viewed from the lens of a Radar and a Black Box.
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Understanding the Rasmussen model for failures
What does the Rasmussen model teach us about Site Reliability Engineering?
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Take back control of your Monitoring
Take back control of your Monitoring with Levitate - a managed time series data warehouse
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The neglected tech arctic winter — Internal SaaS expenses
The current tech winter reveals a hard truth: spending on internal tools for tech infrastructure is bloated—and this isn't just a passing cycle.
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Introducing Levitate: Uplift Your Metrics Management
Managing time series databases is hard. We've evolved to services, yet monitoring lags. Our solution powers critical workloads at a lower cost.
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Why We Auto-Delete Slack Messages at Last9
At Last9, we auto-delete Slack DMs after 2 days. This pushes teams to improve documentation, reduce tribal knowledge, and own accountability.
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We’ve raised a $11M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India!
Exciting news! We've secured an $11M Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital India to fuel our growth and innovation at Last9!
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Services; not Server
Gone are the days of yore when we named are our servers Etsy, Betsy, and Momo, fed them fish, and cleaned their poop.
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Piyush Verma
Systems Observability
Observability is not just about being able to ask questions to your systems. It's also about getting those answers in minutes and not hours.
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