TLDR: Last9, a company specializing in unified cloud-native observability, has been named a Gartner® Cool Vendor in AI for SRE and Observability. This recognition highlights Last9’s innovative approach to managing observability costs and providing a flexible, efficient system for monitoring and troubleshooting in the AI-native era.
SAN FRANCISCO – October 13, 2025 – Last9, a leading provider of unified cloud-native observability at scale, today announced its inclusion in the prestigious ‘Cool Vendors in AI for SRE and Observability’ report by Gartner, Inc. This recognition underscores Last9’s pivotal role in addressing the evolving challenges faced by engineering teams in the burgeoning AI-native era.
Nishant Modak, founder and CEO of Last9, emphasized the significance of this acknowledgment, stating, “The AI-native era marks a clear shift – from building applications to building data and intelligence systems. Last9 sits at the heart of that transformation, giving engineering teams the telemetry data plane their agentic world demands.”
The report highlights the difficulties organizations encounter in obtaining an accurate picture of application and infrastructure health. This often necessitates complex data analysis across disparate tools with varying interfaces and incompatible data structures. Furthermore, the unpredictable and rapidly increasing costs associated with data-intensive workloads, such as generative AI and machine learning, pose significant challenges for cloud-native teams. These teams struggle to constrain observability costs while simultaneously ensuring the quality and performance of modern 24×7 global operations.
Traditional observability offerings, which originated from niche solutions focused on specific areas like application performance monitoring (APM) or log capture for debugging, are often ill-suited for today’s cost-conscious, data-driven decision-making environments. Platform teams frequently grapple with cumbersome platforms that encourage overspending, while developers are forced to navigate complex configuration changes as observability needs evolve. This often leads to conflicts over what data should be monitored, given the ever-increasing demand for data.
Last9’s innovative solution, a dedicated observability control plane, integrates logs, metrics, traces, and other telemetry data into a flexible, efficient, and accessible system for comprehensive monitoring and troubleshooting. This platform has demonstrated its capability to handle over 100 billion events daily. Its transparent and predictable pricing model empowers teams to affordably track all critical events.
Among Last9’s clientele are prominent AI-forward innovators and Fortune 500 companies, a testament to the platform’s effectiveness. The company’s agentic SRE SDK further empowers engineers with programmable control and automation over observability workflows, enabling faster troubleshooting through per-user correlation across diverse datasets. This allows teams to adjust filtering and annotations on-the-fly, eliminating the need to wait for new application build and release cycles. Consequently, developers can concentrate on enhancing application code, while platform teams can focus on delivering optimal infrastructure experiences.
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Headquartered in California, Last9 is supported by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India).
