How much does Observe cost?
- Free plan
- Not stated
- Free trial
- Free trial offered, length not stated
In your favor
- Free trial. Free trial offered, length not stated
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup for a free trial "Start your free trial"
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Not stated
What Observe does
Observe unifies logs, metrics and traces in a telemetry lakehouse and includes an AI SRE for incident investigation via UI, CLI or MCP server. It natively ingests OpenTelemetry data and offers a free trial and a contact-sales path.
- Good for
- SREs, DevOps engineers, application developers, and product and support teams who need to troubleshoot incidents and search logs at scale.
- Channels
- Observe UI, CLI, MCP server, API
- Main product
- Observe (observability platform with log management, APM, infrastructure monitoring and AI SRE)
- Also includes
- Log management, Application performance monitoring, Infrastructure monitoring, AI SRE, Observability Context Graph, CLI
- Connects to
- OpenTelemetry, Apache Iceberg, Kubernetes, Claude, Cursor, 400+ pre-built integrations
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- Live tailNot stated
- Full-text log search
Search and analyze logs without worrying about indexing, data tiering or retention limits.
- Log-based alertingNot stated
- Configurable retentionNot stated
- SSO and role-based accessNot stated
- Self-hosted optionNot stated
- OpenTelemetry support
Observe natively ingests OpenTelemetry (OTel) data, so teams can use existing OTel instrumentation and collect
- AI log analysis assistant
Investigate incidents, find root causes and get suggested fixes using natural language.
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Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | Not stated | |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | Trust Center link | "Trust Center"privacy |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
No prices are published on Observe's pricing page.
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Observe, Inc.
- Online since
- Sep 29, 2017 Domain registration date
- Backing
- "Built on Snowflake lakehouse" their words
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Questions
Is Observe free?
There's no free plan. Free trial: Free trial offered, length not stated.