LogDNA provides a cloud-first observability data platform that ingests, normalizes, and routes massive amounts of machine and log data to the tools and teams that need it. The company focuses on enabling developers, SREs, platform engineers, and security teams to capture the value of data in motion rather than just data at rest. LogDNA has shown substantial growth—Deloitte cited 1,293% revenue growth from 2017–2020—and has more than tripled its team in recent years while expanding its customer base to include brands such as Lifesize, Reltio, Asics, Better.com, Sysdig, and 6 River Systems. Since 2018 LogDNA has been the sole logging provider for IBM Cloud. The company plans to use the investment to deliver a new observability data pipeline solution (generally available in 2022), expand its team, and broaden strategic partnerships and integrations. Its platform is positioned to address cost, workflow, and scale challenges in modern cloud-native environments. LogDNA provides a centralized way for DevOps teams to manage and search log data to troubleshoot issues and accelerate application delivery. The product grew out of a marketing-technology backend and the company was part of Y Combinator's winter 2015 cohort. LogDNA serves roughly 3,000 customers and has about 100 employees. The company has a strategic partnership with IBM to provide logging services for IBM Cloud. Management is transitioning leadership to Tucker Callaway as CEO while co-founder Chris Nguyen moves to chief strategy officer. LogDNA plans to continue hiring and is prioritizing diversity and inclusion measures, including unconscious-bias training and an external review of hiring practices. LogDNA provides multi-cloud log management applications that give insight into development and production environments. Its platform enables teams to ingest, aggregate and view all of their log data regardless of data residency and infrastructure, with deployment options for self-hosted, cloud and multi-cloud environments. LogDNA can begin collecting and analyzing logs from AWS, Docker, Heroku and Elastic with virtually zero onboarding time and can send logs via Syslog, code library or agent. The company serves over 2,000 customers, including IBM, Instacart and Lime. Led by co-founder and CEO Chris Nguyen, LogDNA intends to use the new funding to scale its engineering, sales and marketing teams. LogDNA is an intelligent logging system that provides fast, intuitive log management for DevOps teams. The platform has seen 1,000 percent user growth in the past 12 months, surpassing 10,000 users, and many customers are logging 5–10 terabytes per day. LogDNA plans to use its new funding to invest in machine learning to help prevent server outages, to enable deployment on private clouds, and to expand its sales, marketing, and engineering teams in California. The company hopes to release on-premise and private-cloud access for larger enterprises in the next few months to meet demand driven by compliance and security requirements. LogDNA is already HIPAA compliant for healthcare customers, with SOC2 and PCI certifications described as in progress. Founders Chris Nguyen and Lee Liu, Ryerson University graduates, moved to Silicon Valley after participating in Y Combinator's Winter 2015 cohort. LogDNA was founded by Chris Nguyen and Lee Liu after a “Slack moment” when a tool they built for their ecommerce business proved more valuable than the original product. The company provides logging and server-management tools that aim to proactively identify patterns in log data to reduce outages and alert DevOps teams before failures occur. It offers a free plan that stores up to 50GB of log data per month and an enterprise tier priced at $999 per month for up to 1TB. With fresh funding, LogDNA intends to add more product features, integrate into other services, and work to improve its user numbers. The service is positioned for business customers who need to maintain a strong digital presence and minimize disruptions. Competitors named in the article include Loggly, Logentries, Sumo Logic, and Scalyr.

Total raised

$108M

Funding rounds

5

Latest round

Series D

Latest activity

Dec 2021