Find out about the outage before your customers do.
DevObs sets up and runs observability for startups without an SRE team. Logs, metrics, traces and alerting on open-source tooling, running in accounts you own.
- 02:14 alert pages on-call
- 02:20 first customer ticket. You're already on it.
The usual problems
Most startups add monitoring as they go. It works until it doesn't, usually at 2am, or the week an enterprise customer asks about uptime.
Customers report outages first
Incidents show up in support tickets, not alerts, and nobody can say what broke or why.
Alerts everyone ignores
Hundreds of rules, a Slack channel nobody reads, and the one that mattered lost in the noise.
A bill growing faster than the company
Observability spend climbs every month, driven by log volume and per-host pricing.
Nobody owns it
No SRE, no on-call rota, no runbooks. Monitoring is everyone's side job and nobody's priority.
A free observability health check
We review your monitoring setup over 2–3 days and give you a short, prioritised list of what to fix first. Read-only access, nothing installed, no obligation.
Claim a place- Review of your logs, metrics, tracing and alerting
- Your biggest reliability and cost issues
- Fixes ranked by impact and effort
- A 30-minute walkthrough with your team
- 25% off setup if you go ahead within 60 days
How it works
One standard stack, set up the same way every time, then looked after month to month. Here's a typical engagement, start to finish.
Health check
Free for founding clients
Audit
Gaps, waste and a target setup
Setup
Collectors, instrumentation, dashboards, alerts, runbooks
Run and report
Tuning, upgrades, new services, monthly health report
Either way, your applications are instrumented with OpenTelemetry, an open standard, and everything lives in accounts you own. If you ever part ways with us, it all stays with you.
Priced on your infrastructure, not your headcount
Fixed fees based on cluster size, with an engineering allowance included each month. Anything beyond it is agreed with you first, so there are no surprise bills.
| Service | What you get | From |
|---|---|---|
| Health check | A 2–3 day review and prioritised fix list, for our first three founding clients. | Free |
| Audit | A full two-week review, written report and roadmap. Credited against setup if you go ahead. | £1,500 |
| Setup | A fixed-price build of your observability stack, including up to 10 services. | £3,000 |
| Managed | We run it, tune it and report on it, with engineering hours included. | £1,000 /month |
Prices exclude VAT where applicable, and your own Grafana Cloud or AWS costs. The free health check is limited to three founding clients and subject to a short agreement. We'll give you an exact quote after a short call.
About DevObs
DevObs is run by a senior platform engineer with hands-on experience running production infrastructure and observability at fintech and data companies.
We're a service, not a platform. We don't host your data or lock you into a vendor. We set up and run open-source tooling in accounts you own, so you get production-grade observability without hiring an SRE team.
- Based in
- London, UK
- Works with
- Seed to Series A startups
- Cloud
- AWS
- Stack
- Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir
What's happening in your production right now?
Email us and we'll set up a free 30-minute call to talk through your setup and whether a health check is a good fit.