Odigos founders Ari Recht and Eden Federman (company pic)
Odigos is an Israeli startup pioneering an eBPF-based observability platform that transforms distributed tracing. To that end, the company has raised $13 million in a funding round led by Venture Guides.
Distributed tracing is a method of monitoring and debugging distributed systems. In today’s complex, microservices-based architectures, understanding how requests flow through a system can be challenging due to the multitude of services involved. Distributed tracing provides a way to visualize this flow, making it easier to identify performance bottlenecks, errors, and dependencies.
Founded in 2023 by Ari Recht and Eden Federman, Odigos says it was built with a mission to simplify the complexities of distributed tracing, making it accessible and efficient for developers everywhere. Odigos uses eBPF to automate the implementation of distributed tracing. It is the only technology that is able to deliver automatic context propagation for fully accurate distributed tracing in OpenTelemetry, allowing customers to use Odigos with any observability tool.
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Odigos’ technology has been in development for years, gaining traction after the company’s founder participated in the Y Combinator accelerator program in 2023. Prior to founding Odigos, Ari Recht amassed over two decades of experience in the high-tech industry, holding executive and advisory roles in technology and finance. Eden, one of the leading contributors to the eBPF and OpenTelemetry communities, pioneered distributed tracing with these technologies. With over 15 years of expertise in the observability field, Eden has developed and built monitoring systems for organizations such as the IDF, Yahoo (Verizon), and Taboola.
Distributed tracing is used to understand the interactions between services, how failure spreads, how latency builds up, and the impact on the original requesters. Traditional monitoring tools struggle to achieve accurate distributed tracing as they demand complex implementation requiring extensive manual effort, and coordination among many teams, and consume resources otherwise dedicated to the applications themselves.
Odigos leverages eBPF, a kernel-level technology, to automate distributed tracing, addressing developers’ challenges. Odigos’ innovative approach automatically propagates context, ensuring accurate distributed tracing in OpenTelemetry, the industry’s second-most popular open-source technology after Kubernetes. This flexibility allows customers to seamlessly integrate Odigos with any observability tool.
“Odigos supercharges any organization’s current monitoring solution by offering the only platform to provide complete observability without requiring code changes and performance overhead,” said Ari Recht, CEO and co-founder of Odigos. “We are excited to take on one of the foremost challenges engineers are facing today.”
