Next-gen tracing platform

Distributed tracing at scale

Track requests across thousands of services. Pinpoint issues in milliseconds.

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Trusted by industry leaders

KuluGlomoDPDZeroZinc Learning Labs
Traces

Complete visibility across your distributed systems

Instantly visualize request paths through your microservices mesh, pinpointing bottlenecks and errors that would otherwise remain hidden in your infrastructure.

Scout trace explorer with span duration heatmap

Follow requests across your entire service mesh, identifying bottlenecks and performance issues at any scale.

  • Service mapping
  • Dependency tracking
  • Latency analysis
Scout traces for a service with latency breakdown

Pinpoint exactly where and why errors occur with comprehensive spans, logs, and metrics in a unified view.

  • Error tracking
  • Span analysis
  • Context preservation
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Monitor critical performance metrics across all services. Track P50, P95, P99 latencies and identify performance regressions instantly.

  • Percentile analysis
  • Trend detection
  • SLO monitoring
Open standards

Built on open standards

Future-proof your tracing infrastructure with vendor-neutral instrumentation and collection based on industry standards.

  • OpenTelemetry Native

    Native OpenTelemetry tracing support with full W3C Trace Context propagation. No proprietary agents or SDKs required.

  • Universal Instrumentation

    Support for automatic and manual instrumentation across all major languages and frameworks. From Java to Go, Python to .NET.

Trusted worldwide

10s of TB
Ingested daily
Telemetry processed every day
80%
Cost reduction
Versus legacy tools
99.9%
Uptime SLA
Enterprise reliability
Customer stories

Notes from the field

“Our goal was to improve reliability without increasing cost, and base14 made that possible. The ability to view APM, infra, and database insights together has helped our team move from reactive to data-driven problem solving. It's an observability platform that actually makes engineers faster and executives more confident.”
Glomo

Sahil Kharb

Founder, Glomo

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