OllyGarden Raises $4M With Backing From Datadog and Grafana Labs to Fix Telemetry Data

OllyGarden, a Berlin-based observability startup, has raised $4 million in venture funding. Next Frontier Capital, Grand Ventures and ACTAI Ventures invested, alongside existing backer DIG Ventures.

The round also includes strategic investments from Datadog, Grafana Labs and Dash0, three companies that sell observability platforms and stand to benefit if the data flowing into them is cleaner.

What OllyGarden Does

Modern software systems produce enormous volumes of telemetry: logs, metrics and traces that engineers use to monitor performance and diagnose failures. Much of that data is redundant, incomplete or simply wrong, and companies pay to store and process all of it.

OllyGarden continuously evaluates telemetry, flags problems and fixes them at the source, so unreliable data never reaches a company's observability backend. Its tools are built on OpenTelemetry, the open-source standard for collecting this kind of data.

The company launched in 2025 and works with businesses in retail, financial services and enterprise software. Over the past year, it says, it has helped customers find ways to cut log volumes by up to 85%.

A Founder From the OpenTelemetry Community

OllyGarden was founded by Juraci Paixão Kröhling, a longtime contributor to the OpenTelemetry project. His view is that more instrumentation does not mean better instrumentation, and that the goal should be to surface only data that is useful and actionable.

New Product: Minimum Viable Instrumentation

Alongside the funding, OllyGarden introduced Minimum Viable Instrumentation, a feature of its AI OpenTelemetry engineer, called Rose. The tool identifies where instrumentation is missing and guides engineering teams toward a baseline level of coverage, addressing the other side of the problem: systems that do not report enough.

The new capital will go toward further developing OllyGarden's telemetry quality technology.

Why It Matters

Observability spending has become one of the largest line items in many engineering budgets, and costs rise with every gigabyte of data ingested. That has created demand for tools that reduce volume without sacrificing visibility. Backing from Datadog and Grafana Labs, two of the category's biggest names, suggests the platforms themselves see better data quality as good for the market, even if it means customers send them less.

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Tech.eu — "OllyGarden bags $4M to improve telemetry quality"