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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

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

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

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

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

Nishant Modak

Use Telegraf Without the Prometheus Complexity

Use Telegraf Without the Prometheus Complexity

Collect metrics with Telegraf without running Prometheus. No scraping, no TSDB tuning, just clean, push-based telemetry to your backend.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

Ship Confluent Cloud Observability in Minutes

Ship Confluent Cloud Observability in Minutes

Push metrics into Last9 and start tracking Kafka lag, retries, and throughput in real-time.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

Stream AWS Metrics to Grafana with Last9 in 10 minutes

Stream AWS Metrics to Grafana with Last9 in 10 minutes

Visualize AWS metrics like Lambda, API Gateway, and RDS in Grafana using Last9. No agents, no code, set it up in under 10 minutes.

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Faiz Shaikh

Faiz Shaikh

Query and Analyze Logs Visually, Without Writing LogQL

Query and Analyze Logs Visually, Without Writing LogQL

Visually build, parse, and analyze logs across services, no LogQL required. Get structured insights faster with Query Builder.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

Build Log Automation with Last9's Query API

Build Log Automation with Last9's Query API

Here's how you can build automated log analysis workflows with Last9's Query Logs API

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Prathamesh Sonpatki

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Enable Kong Gateway Tracing in 5 Minutes

Enable Kong Gateway Tracing in 5 Minutes

Instrument Kong with OpenTelemetry for end-to-end API visibility, no code changes required.

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Anjali Udasi

Anjali Udasi

Last9 MCP Server feature image showing Claude Desktop configuration with illustrated developer cat mascot

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

Nishant Modak

Last9’s Single Pane for High Cardinality Observability

Last9’s Single Pane for High Cardinality Observability

Last9’s Telemetry Warehouse now supports Logs and Traces, offering a unified view for high cardinality observability to simplify monitoring and troubleshooting.

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Sahil Khan

Sahil Khan

Unwiring High Cardinality - SRE Day 2023

Unwiring High Cardinality - SRE Day 2023

Report from SRE Day 2023, where Piyush Verma - CTO Last9, gave a talk on Unwiring High Cardinality

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Last9

Last9

What Site Reliability Engineering needs — A swarm of rogue bees

What Site Reliability Engineering Needs: A Swarm of Bees

If all companies are software companies, all companies need better Observability to understand how performative their software is

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Aniket Rao

Aniket Rao

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

Nishant Modak

SRECon APAC 2023 Singapore

SRECon APAC 2023 Recap

Recap of SRECon APAC 2023 in Singapore

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Aniket Rao

Aniket Rao

QCon New York 2023 Recap

QCon New York 2023 Recap

Recap of QCon New York 2023 Conference

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Prathamesh Sonpatki

Prathamesh Sonpatki

SRE vs Platform Engineering

SRE vs Platform Engineering

What's the difference between SREs and Platform Engineers? How do they differ in their daily tasks?

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Last9

Last9

What's the difference between SREs and DevOps?

SRE vs DevOps: Definition, Key Differences, and Similarities

What's the difference between SREs and DevOps professionals? How do they differ in their daily tasks?

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Last9

Last9

What does "Cricket scale" mean for a Site Reliability Engineer?

Understanding “Cricket Scale”

How does a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer plan for "Cricket scale"? How do you warm systems' about to witness 30+ million concurrent users?

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Aniket Rao

Aniket Rao

What is MTBI?

What is MTBI?

Everything you need to know about Mean Time Between Incidents (MTBI) and how it can help Site Reliability Engineers

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Last9

Last9

Reliability Engineering for Dummies: ELI5

Reliability Engineering for Dummies: ELI5

Explaining Reliability Engineering to a 5-year-old.

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Mohan Dutt Parashar

Mohan Dutt Parashar

Difference between SLA Vs SLO

SLA vs SLO vs SLI - What's the difference

SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs—what’s the difference? For DevOps folks, understanding these nuances is key. Here's a quick guide to each term.

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Last9

Last9

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

Nishant Modak

Self-managed Prometheus vs Managed Prometheus

Self-managed Prometheus vs Managed Prometheus

What are the differences between Self-managed Prometheus vs Managed prometheus? How do you choose what works for you?

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Last9

Last9

India vs Pakistan: SRE and the Shannon Limit

India vs Pakistan: SRE and the Shannon Limit

How does one ‘detect change’ in a complex infrastructure, so you don’t lose out on critical revenues — A short SRE story

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Satyajeet Jadhav

Satyajeet Jadhav

Battling Alert Fatigue

Battling Alert Fatigue

What is Alert Fatigue and techniques to reduce it

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Last9

Last9

Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

A guide to help you implement Prometheus and Grafana in your Kubernetes cluster

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Last9

Last9

Why MTTR should be a ‘business’ metric

Why MTTR should be a ‘business’ metric

A key challenge is aligning engineering health metrics with business goals. How can business measure engineering, and engineering show its value?

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Sidu Ponnappa

Sidu Ponnappa

Observability - That Last 9

Observability - That Last 9

TL;DR: A stitch in time, saves 9. A discussion on the key blocks of observability.

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Akash Saxena

Akash Saxena

How we won Dukaan over

How we won Dukaan over

5 meetings. 1 month. Subhash and his team’s velocity on decision-making, moving fast, and radical candor, are a breath of fresh air in the Indian startup ecosystem.

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Aniket Rao

Aniket Rao

Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality

Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality

When dealing with Time Series databases, I always got confused with Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality. Here’s an explanation as I have understood it.

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Piyush Verma

Piyush Verma

Last9 completes SOC II Type 2 Certification

Last9 completes SOC II Type 2 Certification

The comprehensive audit validates Last9 as a trusted SRE partner; a crucial process to work with highly regulated industries.

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Abhi Puranam

Abhi Puranam

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

Nishant Modak

Best Practices for Postmortems: A guide

Best Practices for Postmortems: A guide

The ins and outs of conducting an effective postmortem. Ready templates and examples from leading organizations around the world!

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Prathamesh Sonpatki

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Choosing Effective SLIs

Choosing Effective SLIs

Practical advice to choose an effective SLI.

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Akshay Chugh

Akshay Chugh

Running a Database on EC2 is Slowing It Down

Running a Database on EC2 is Slowing It Down

Learn everything about the advantages of EC2, it's use cases and how to optimize EC2 further.

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Jayesh Bapu Ahire

Jayesh Bapu Ahire

Akshay Chugh

Akshay Chugh

Deployment Readiness Checklists

Deployment Readiness Checklists

A ready checklist of a comprehensive list of steps and activities involved in the deployment of your application.

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Prathamesh Sonpatki

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Doing SRE the Right Way!

Doing SRE the Right Way!

A well-thought-out approach to SRE, which will help site reliability engineers and software engineers develop and maintain a useful, consistent, and effective SRE strategy for their products!

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Piyush Verma

Piyush Verma

Getting the big picture with Log Analysis

Getting the big picture with Log Analysis

How to get the most out of your logs!

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Jayesh Bapu Ahire

Jayesh Bapu Ahire

Microservices - Tracking Dependencies

Microservices - Tracking Dependencies

Quick primer into microservices architecture and the importance of tracking dependencies

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Akshay Chugh

Akshay Chugh

Jayesh Bapu Ahire

Jayesh Bapu Ahire

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

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

Nishant Modak

Piyush Verma

Piyush Verma