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Nishant Modak

Founder at last9. loves building dev tools and listening to the beatles.

Stop Flying Blind Last9

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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Nishant Modak

Last9 Named a Gartner® Cool Vendor in AI for SRE and Observability

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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Nishant Modak

Last9 launch week day 4 banner showing AI agent analyzing frontend proxy logs with MCP integration

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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Nishant Modak

Last9 launch week day 3 banner showcasing Kubernetes pod monitoring with CPU and memory metrics

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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Nishant Modak

Last9 launch week day 2 banner featuring background job monitoring with exception trend analysis

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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Nishant Modak

Last9 launch week day 1 banner introducing automatic service discovery with APM metrics

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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Nishant Modak

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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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Nishant Modak

Radar and Black Box for Software Observability

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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Nishant Modak

Understanding the Rasmussen model for failures

Understanding the Rasmussen model for failures

What does the Rasmussen model teach us about Site Reliability Engineering?

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Nishant Modak

Take back control of your Monitoring with Levitate

Take back control of your Monitoring

Take back control of your Monitoring with Levitate - a managed time series data warehouse

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Nishant Modak

The neglected tech arctic winter — Internal SaaS expenses

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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Nishant Modak

Introducing Levitate: Uplift Your Metrics Management

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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Nishant Modak

Why We Auto-Delete Slack Messages at Last9

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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Nishant Modak

Last9 team

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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Nishant Modak

Services; not Server

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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Nishant Modak

Piyush Verma

Piyush Verma

Systems Observability

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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Nishant Modak

Piyush Verma

Piyush Verma