OllyGarden bags $4M to improve telemetry quality

OllyGarden, an observability platform, has secured $4 million in venture capital funding to enhance its technology aimed at improving telemetry quality. The round of investment was led by Next Frontier Capital, Grand Ventures, ACTAI Ventures, and existing investor DIG Ventures, with Datadog, Grafana Labs, and Dash0 making strategic investments as well.

Founded in 2025, OllyGarden assists companies in managing the quality of telemetry data, which is crucial for monitoring software systems. The company operates across various sectors, including retail, financial services, and enterprise software, tackling the increasing volume of unreliable and unnecessary data that can inflate costs and complicate engineers' efforts to pinpoint pertinent information.

OllyGarden's platform continuously assesses telemetry quality, spotlights issues, and converts insights into resolutions at the source, effectively preventing the dissemination of unreliable data to observability backends. This approach enables engineers and AI agents to work with more precise data, simultaneously minimizing expenses related to storing and processing superfluous information. In the last year, OllyGarden has facilitated companies in identifying opportunities to cut log volumes by as much as 85 percent.

In conjunction with the funding announcement, OllyGarden unveiled Minimum Viable Instrumentation (MVI), a novel feature for its AI OpenTelemetry Engineer, Rose. While Rose could previously analyze existing instrumentation and suggest enhancements, MVI goes a step further by identifying gaps in instrumentation and offering guidance on establishing a baseline.

This capability aims to ensure that organizations adhere to uniform instrumentation practices across teams, code repositories, and pull requests, all without the creation of unnecessary data. Juraci Paixão Kröhling, the founder of OllyGarden, remarked, "More instrumentation is not better instrumentation; it's about surfacing only the information and data that's useful and actionable: no more, no less."

Kröhling also noted that the increasing adoption of AI-generated code has contributed to the surge in telemetry volumes, making it challenging for engineers to discern critical information. MVI is designed to augment OllyGarden's capabilities beyond refining existing instrumentation to pinpoint areas where new instrumentation is required.

Built on OpenTelemetry, a widely adopted industry standard for software telemetry, OllyGarden's technology is intended to assist organizations in applying instrumentation best practices at scale, even with limited observability engineering teams.