Kubernetes
Helm chart, DaemonSet agent, automatic pod + namespace labeling. Cluster cost dashboards out of the box.
Most observability is a stack of vendors stitched together with webhooks. Logwave is one product. Logs link to traces, traces link to metrics, metrics fire alerts, alerts open dashboards. The whole loop closes inside one tab.
Ship every line. Columnar storage on object stores means storage cost is roughly 1/10th of legacy vendors. And queries still come back in seconds because we index what matters and scan what doesn't.
Drop in our agent, or just point your existing OTLP exporter at our endpoint. Every span is searchable, every span links back to the logs it produced and the metrics it changed.
Most vendors charge you by the number of unique label combinations. We don't. Send user_id as a label if you want. It's not our business model to punish you for it.
Most "anomaly detection" is a 7-day moving average and a hope. Ours learns your baseline per route, per region, per hour-of-week. And silences the chatty alerts before they reach your phone.
Every dashboard exports to Wave-JSON or Terraform with one click. Your monitoring becomes a file in the same repo as the service it monitors. Reviewable, diffable, and re-deployable.
API checks, multi-step flows, full browser tests. SSL expiry, DNS, TCP, ICMP. Run from public regions or self-hosted probes inside your VPC for the routes you can't expose.
A fair-as-we-can-make-it comparison against the platforms we hear about most often in switching conversations.
| Capability | Logwave | Datadog | New Relic | Grafana stack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per-seat pricing | ● Yes | ● No | ● No | ● Partial |
| Unlimited ingest, no sampling | ● Yes | ● Tiered | ● Tiered | ● Yes (self-host) |
| 1-second metric resolution | ● Yes | ● 10s default | ● 60s | ● Yes |
| OpenTelemetry-native | ● Yes | ● Adapter | ● Adapter | ● Yes |
| Profile-guided alert tuning | ● Yes | ● No | ● No | ● No |
| Dashboards as code (Terraform) | ● Native | ● Provider | ● Limited | ● Via Grizzly |
| BYOC deployment | ● Yes (Enterprise) | ● No | ● No | ● Yes (self-host) |
| SOC 2 Type II + HIPAA | ● Yes | ● Yes | ● Yes | ● Depends |
| Setup time (drop-in agent) | Under 3 min | ~15 min | ~20 min | ~2 hours |
If you ship in Kubernetes, Lambda, ECS, Vercel, Fly, or Render. We already have an agent. If you ship in something we don't, our OTLP endpoint will eat whatever your exporter sends.
Helm chart, DaemonSet agent, automatic pod + namespace labeling. Cluster cost dashboards out of the box.
Lambda layer for cold-start-friendly tracing, ECS sidecar, EKS DaemonSet. Pulls in CloudWatch as a fallback source.
One-click integrations for the modern hosts. Function-level traces for Vercel, machine-level metrics for Fly.
Drop-in OTLP endpoint. Bring your existing collector. No proprietary SDKs forced on your engineers.
30+ database and queue integrations with first-class dashboards, slow-query insights, and replication-lag alerts.
Send alerts to Slack with full context. Open Linear issues from a span. PagerDuty + Opsgenie for the legacy on-call paths.
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