Observe
Observe is an AI-powered observability platform that combines logs, metrics, and traces in a Snowflake lakehouse.
What Observe is
Observe is an AI-powered observability platform that combines logs, metrics, and traces in a Snowflake lakehouse. Its AI SRE investigates incidents, identifies likely root causes, and suggests fixes through natural-language requests using an Observability Context Graph. The service accepts structured, semi-structured, and unstructured logs, and provides log-derived metrics without an extra charge. Native OpenTelemetry supplies automatic instrumentation and service discovery, while Observe says it captures every trace without sampling or data loss. More than 400 integrations cover cloud, Kubernetes, containers, and serverless monitoring. Monitor notifications can reach email, Slack, PagerDuty, or custom webhooks, including JIRA. OpenTelemetry ingestion and Apache Iceberg tables provide open-standard access. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. AI requests are processed in memory without storage or logging, and AI features can be disabled.
Good
- Combines logs, metrics, and traces
- AI SRE investigates incidents and suggests fixes
- 400+ pre-built monitoring integrations
- Unlimited log-derived metrics at no extra cost
- OpenTelemetry and Apache Iceberg support
Watch out
- No free plan
- 14-day trial has compute-credit limits
- Trial allows at most 20 monitors
- Trial data is deleted if not upgraded
Who it suits
Observe suits SREs, DevOps engineers, application developers, product teams, and support teams needing centralized telemetry. It supports API, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows environments.
Verdict
Observe brings broad telemetry coverage, incident assistance, integrations, and open-standard access into one platform. Its paid model and trial limits should be considered before adoption.
Plans and prices
From Observe's own pricing page, checked 3 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Metrics | Priced on request | Compute included · Unlimited users · 13-month retention · Starting at; subscription based on committed volume of uncompressed telemetry data ingested |
| Logs | Priced on request | Compute included · Unlimited users · 30-day retention · Starting at; subscription based on committed volume of uncompressed telemetry data ingested |
| Traces | Priced on request | Compute included · Unlimited users · 30-day retention · Starting at; subscription based on committed volume of uncompressed telemetry data ingested |
The facts
Each one read from Observe's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI data handling
- The AI security documentation says AI requests are processed in memory without being stored or logged, and AI features can be disabled at workspace or organization level.checked 3 Oct 2026
- AI SRE
- Its AI SRE investigates incidents, identifies root causes, and suggests fixes using natural language and context from the Observability Context Graph.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Alert integrations
- Monitor notifications can be sent to email, Slack, PagerDuty, or custom webhooks, including services such as JIRA.checked 3 Oct 2026
- APM
- Native OpenTelemetry provides automatic instrumentation and service discovery, and Observe says it captures every trace without sampling or data loss.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Observe says it has 400+ pre-built integrations for cloud, Kubernetes, containers, and serverless monitoring.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Observe identifies SREs, DevOps engineers, application developers, product teams, and support teams as users it serves.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Log management
- Observe accepts structured, semi-structured, and unstructured logs and offers unlimited log-derived metrics at no extra cost.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Open standards
- Observe natively ingests OpenTelemetry and supports Apache Iceberg tables so telemetry can also be accessed through Iceberg-compatible engines.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Product
- Observe is an AI-powered observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, and traces on a Snowflake lakehouse.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Security
- Observe's pricing page states that data is encrypted in transit and at rest.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Support
- The pricing page includes customer success and technical support.checked 3 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2017checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- San Mateo, California, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Trial data
- At trial end, the instance is disabled and deleted with its data if the customer does not upgrade.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Trial limits
- The 14-day trial has a ceiling on compute credits, permits at most 20 monitors, and disables monitors that generate more than 10 alerts per hour.checked 3 Oct 2026
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