At a glance
- Deployment
- saas
- Licence
- proprietary
- Categories
- observability platform, log management, apm, metrics backend, tracing backend, llm observability
- Ownership
- Acquired by Snowflake, closed 2026-02-02 · o-apmdigest, o-ciodive, o-silicon, o-snow-close, o-snow-product, o-tracxn
- Estimate
- Costed from published list prices
- Vendor-side sampling
- no
What it charges for
Every line item recorded for Observe. "Not stated" means the vendor's own page gives no number; it is never treated as zero.
| Line item | Unit | Commitment | List price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logs (ingest-based subscription) | gb-ingested | annual committed volume ("starting at"; multi-year and volume discounts) | $0.49 | o-pricing |
| Traces (ingest-based subscription) | gb-ingested | annual committed volume ("starting at"; multi-year and volume discounts) | $0.59 | o-pricing |
| Metrics (ingest-based subscription) | custom | annual committed volume ("starting at"; multi-year and volume discounts) | $0.008 | o-docs-license, o-obs360, o-pricing, o-pricing-archive |
| Extended retention | gb-retained-month | add-on to subscription | $0.01 | o-pricing |
| Observe Usage (AWS Marketplace unit) | custom | AWS Marketplace 12-month contract | $20,000 | o-aws-mkt, o-pricing-2026-10 |
| Observe Compute Credits (usage-based license) | credit | usage-based license (contract) | Not stated | o-docs-accel, o-docs-credit, o-docs-occ |
How the estimate is built
The standard deployment is priced by these components (methodology). A quantity is a formula over the workload variables; free allowances are subtracted first, and a tier prices only its own band.
| Component | Line item | Quantity | Free | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logs ingested (uncompressed GiB) | Logs (ingest-based subscription) · per gb-ingested · annual committed volume ("starting at"; multi-year and volume discounts) | log_gib | ||
| Spans ingested (uncompressed GiB) | Traces (ingest-based subscription) · per gb-ingested · annual committed volume ("starting at"; multi-year and volume discounts) | span_gib | ||
| Metrics, data points per minute (per DPM-month) | Metrics (ingest-based subscription) · per custom · annual committed volume ("starting at"; multi-year and volume discounts) | metric_dpm |
Example monthly bills
The same four illustrative workloads as the calculator, at list price. "At least" means a price the vendor does not state is left out of the total.
| Workload | Per month | Note | Calculator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $113 | Open Starter in the calculator→ | |
| Small | $693 | Open Small in the calculator→ | |
| Medium | $11,265 | Open Medium in the calculator→ | |
| Large | $110,646 | Open Large in the calculator→ |
Capabilities
What Observe offers, by the definitions in the dataset. Add-on means a separately priced product.
| Capability | Level | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Ai assistant nl query Natural-language query or chat assistant | Yes | o-docs-aisre |
| Ai root cause AI-assisted root-cause analysis or investigation agent | Yes | o-docs-aisec, o-docs-aisre |
| Alerting Alert rules with routing/notification | Yes | o-docs-monitors, o-pricing |
| Anomaly detection Statistical/ML anomaly detection on telemetry | Yes | o-docs-monitors |
| Audit logs Audit log of user/admin actions | Yes | o-docs-audit |
| Byoc Vendor-managed in the customer's cloud account | Partial | o-docs-iceberg |
| Data reduction Drop, aggregate, dedupe, or convert logs-to-metrics before billing | Yes | o-docs-dropfilters, o-docs-logmetrics |
| Llm observability LLM/agent tracing, token and cost tracking, evaluations | Yes | o-apm, o-docs-llm |
| Logs Log management | Yes | o-docs-index, o-pricing |
| Mcp server Exposes an MCP server for agents | Yes | o-docs-mcp |
| Metrics Metrics | Yes | o-docs-metrics, o-pricing |
| Observability as code Terraform provider / dashboards-and-alerts as code | Yes | o-docs-credit, o-docs-dropfilters, o-docs-index |
| Open format archive Archive in an open format (Parquet, JSON, OTLP) in customer object storage | Partial | o-docs-export, o-docs-iceberg |
| Otel collector distro Ships or supports its own OpenTelemetry Collector distribution | Yes | o-docs-agent |
| Otlp ingest Accepts OTLP (gRPC or HTTP) natively, without a proprietary agent in the path | Yes | o-docs-otel |
| Pii redaction Mask/redact sensitive data in the pipeline | No | o-docs-sensitive |
| Pipeline processing Parse, enrich, transform in flight before storage | Partial | o-docs-ingest, o-docs-opal |
| Prometheus remote write Accepts Prometheus remote_write | Yes | o-docs-prom |
| Proprietary agent required Full functionality needs the vendor's own agent (yes = lock-in signal) | No | o-docs-agent, o-docs-oss-otel |
| Rbac Role-based access control | Yes | o-docs-rbac |
| Saas Vendor-hosted SaaS | Yes | o-docs-regions |
| Sampling tail Tail-based trace sampling | Partial | o-docs-tailsampling |
| Self hosted Customer can run it on its own infrastructure | No | o-docs-regions |
| Service map Auto-discovered service/topology map | Yes | o-apm, o-docs-index |
| Slo management First-class SLO/error-budget objects | Partial | o-docs-slo |
| Sql query SQL as a query language | Partial | o-docs-iceberg, o-docs-opal |
| Sso saml SSO via SAML/OIDC | Yes | o-docs-index, o-docs-rbac |
| Traces Distributed tracing | Yes | o-apm, o-pricing |
| Usage cost controls Quotas, budgets, usage attribution to teams | Yes | o-docs-credit, o-docs-dropfilters, o-docs-license |
Sources
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