bitdrift

Mobile observability, radically reimagined: bitdrift flips the decades-old mobile observability paradigm on its head: log everything, intelligently choose what to store, and instantly deploy changes to your entire fleet. bitdrift exists to solve a common, frustrating, and costly problem: observability. Developers need visibility in the things that their app runs on – whether it be servers (coming soon), or mobile devices. And though there are many, many, many observability solutions out there – including highly successful public companies – most developers will tell you that observability is still the bane of their existence. Despite (or perhaps because of) it being the single biggest line item on their infrastructure bill, developers still generally don’t have the observability data they need to really understand what’s going on. And because they pay up the nose for everything they store, whether it’s useful or not, the incentive is to be highly stingy on what they log, to the detriment of their visibility and their users. bitdrift is a bit of an unusual startup in that we’ve been at this for a while. The bitdrift team used to work at Lyft, and over several years developed a comprehensive internal solution to the problems outlined above. It supported 50+ million devices at Lyft and saved the company 10s of millions of dollars per year. We spun out as an independent company in 2023 with Lyft as our first marquee customer, and raised $15M from leading investors like Amplify Partners.