Pixie provides developers instantaneous, automatic observability for Kubernetes-native applications by running inside a developer’s Kubernetes platform. It collects telemetry at the source using Linux kernel techniques like eBPF, so there is no instrumentation to install. The product is offered as a freemium SaaS and the service is available in public beta. The core developer experience centers on “Pixie scripts,” a Python-like language (PxL) that lets teams codify debugging workflows. The company plans to make these scripts more robust and enable them to take actions on clusters based on monitoring data. Pixie was co-founded by Zain Asgar (CEO) and Ishan Mukherjee (CPO), who previously worked at Google, Stanford, Apple, and Amazon. The team emphasizes automating manual setup and building tools that developers want to use rather than focusing solely on operators.

Total raised

$9M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Oct 2020