INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Chronosphere, a startup from two ex-Uber engineers who helped create the open-source M3 monitoring project to handle Uber-level scale,
officially launched today with the goal of building a commercial company on top of the open-source project.It also announced an $11 million
investment led by Greylock, with participation from venture capitalist Lee Fixel.While the founders, CEO Martin Mao and CTO Rob Skillington,
were working at Uber, they recognized a gap in the monitoring industry, particularly around cloud-native technologies like containers and
could really scale to our needs
So we ended up building and open sourcing our solution, which is M3
essential difference between M3 and other open-source, cloud-native monitoring solutions like Prometheus is that ability to scale, he
says.One of the main reasons they left to start a company, with the blessing of Uber, was that the community began asking for features that
By launching Chronosphere, Mao and Skillington would be taking on the management of the project moving forward (although sharing governance
will be a cloud version of M3 to help reduce some of the complexity associated with managing an M3 project
It is solving a fairly complex problem at large scale, and running it actually requires a decent amount of investment to run at large scale,
They solved that problem at Uber, and I saw them, and I was like wow, the rest of the market needs what guys built and I wrote the Series A
