Obseria for Startups: observability credits that grow with you
Up to $50,000 in usage credits for 12 months, free training and direct access to solution architects. Observability from the first trace, without seat fees.
Everything a young team needs to run production with confidence
The program removes the cost barrier in the early stages, so you can build good observability habits before scale makes them expensive.Up to $50,000 in credits
Usage credits valid for 12 months, applied to every signal type: logs, metrics, traces, RUM, synthetics and Intelligence credits.
Free training and certification
Courses and certifications for your whole team, so the people on call know the platform before the first incident.
Solution architects and office hours
Get advice on instrumentation, sampling and cost design from people who do this every day.
Marketplace billing
Pay through your cloud marketplace account and use existing cloud commitments and credits.
Every feature, unlimited users
No seat fees and no feature tiers. Your whole team, including contractors, gets access.
Open standards from day one
Instrument with OpenTelemetry once. Your telemetry stays portable as your stack and your vendors change.
Up to $50,000 in usage credits for 12 months
Accepted startups receive Obseria usage credits for 12 months, plus free training, certifications and access to solution architects and office hours. Credits apply to usage-based pricing per signal, so they cover the whole platform rather than a limited starter edition.
- Credits for logs, metrics, traces, RUM, synthetics and Intelligence
- Free training and certifications for your team
- Office hours with solution architects
- Marketplace billing via your existing cloud account
- Unlimited users, no per-seat fees
Who can apply
The program is designed for early-stage companies that are building their first production systems or preparing to scale them. If you are unsure whether you qualify, apply anyway and tell us about your situation.
- Founded less than five years ago
- Less than €10M in total funding
- Not yet a paying Obseria customer
- Headquartered in the EU, the UK or Switzerland
Make credits last with smart defaults
Credits go further when you only store what you need. Keep every error and slow request with tail-based sampling, drop debug noise in Obseria Pipeline and rely on the fact that filtered data costs only ingestion. Our architects help you set this up in office hours.
- Tail-based sampling keeps errors and slow traces
- Filter and mask data at ingest with Obseria Pipeline
- Metrics retained for 13 months for trend analysis
- Usage dashboards show where credits are spent
# Lean start: one Collector, traces and logs, sampled tails
exporters:
otlp/obseria:
endpoint: ${OBSERIA_OTLP_ENDPOINT}
headers:
authorization: "Bearer ${OBSERIA_TOKEN}"
processors:
batch: {}
tail_sampling:
policies:
- name: keep-errors
type: status_code
status_code: {status_codes: [ERROR]}
- name: keep-slow
type: latency
latency: {threshold_ms: 500}From application to first trace
- Step 1
Apply
Tell us about your company, your stage and your stack using the contact form.
- Step 2
Review
Our startup team reviews your application against the eligibility criteria and gets back to you.
- Step 3
Activate credits
Once accepted, your credits are added to your workspace and we schedule an onboarding session with a solution architect.
- Step 4
Build and grow
Instrument with OpenTelemetry, join office hours and use the free training while your product scales.
Observability that grows with your stage
| Stage | Typical setup | What helps most |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-seed | One or two services, a managed database, a single cloud account | Quick OpenTelemetry setup, error tracking and basic alerts |
| Seed | A handful of services on Kubernetes or serverless, first paying customers | Distributed tracing, SLOs, real user monitoring and on-call alerting |
| Series A | Growing team, multiple environments, first compliance questions | Configuration as code, RBAC and SSO, PII masking and EU data residency |
| Beyond | Several teams, more traffic, cost under scrutiny | Pipeline filtering, sampling strategy, Intelligence for faster root cause |
Frequently asked questions
Accepted startups receive up to $50,000 in Obseria usage credits, valid for 12 months. The exact amount depends on your stage and expected usage.
Companies founded less than five years ago, with less than €10M in total funding, that are not yet paying Obseria customers and are headquartered in the EU, the UK or Switzerland.
You continue on standard usage-based pricing per signal, with no host or seat fees. Usage dashboards show your consumption at any time, so there are no surprises.
We review every application individually and get back to you as soon as we have looked at it. In the meantime you can already start the 14-day free trial.
Yes. The 14-day free trial includes every feature, unlimited users and no credit card, and you can apply for the program at any time during or after the trial.
Build on observability from day one.
Apply for up to $50,000 in usage credits, or start the 14-day free trial right away.