Meet Chip,

The Only Monitoring Agent
for Fast-Moving Teams

The Only Monitoring
Agent for Fast-Moving
Teams

Chip

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Founded by ex-Netflix engineers

Founded by ex-Netflix engineers

Backed by top-tier investors

Backed by top-tier investors

Zero Config. Zero Dashboards.
Zero False Alarms. Zero Cost.

Just instrument your apps — Chip does the rest.

Chip identifies and notifies you of issues that genuinely affect your systems and customers, ensuring you focus only on what’s critical.

Root Cause, with Receipts

Connect system failures to customer pain.

Chip watches your entire system – including dependencies, code commits, Kubernetes events, and more – to pinpoint the root cause of issues. It also performs real-time outlier and cohort detection to uncover the impact of issues on real users, customer segments, and critical revenue paths.

A new container image deployment, with an associated code change, is identified as the likely root cause.

A new container image deployment, with an associated code change, is identified as the likely root cause.

High-cardinality, customer or business-impacting tags on a custom metric are analyzed to pinpoint who is affected.

High-cardinality, customer or business-impacting tags on a custom metric are analyzed to pinpoint who is affected.

How It Works

Zip through Chip's simple onboarding in <30 minutes to set up vendor-neutral, automatic app instrumentation, and an open-source pipeline to enrich and normalize your data for effective monitoring.

Zip through Chip's simple onboarding in <30 minutes to set up vendor-neutral, automatic app instrumentation, and an open-source pipeline to enrich and normalize your data for effective monitoring.

Zip through Chip's simple onboarding in <30 minutes to set up vendor-neutral, automatic app instrumentation, and an open-source pipeline to enrich and normalize your data for effective monitoring.

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OpenTelemetry Is All You Need

Chip guides you through auto-instrumenting your apps using vendor-neutral OpenTelemetry SDKs for common languages and frameworks, giving you core observability with no code changes.

Install remote-controllable OpenTelemetry Collectors, using best practices out-of-the-box to source, enrich, and normalize telemetry data, and send it to any OTel-compatible destination.

Autonomous, Continuous Signal Improvement

Chip processes real-time data from your OpenTelemetry Collector without polling or vendor dependencies. It autonomously enhances signal quality by extracting meaningful information from high-value logs and spans, pushing rules directly into the Collector pipeline.

Chip Learns What Matters, and Who It Matters To

By continuously analyzing your system's behavior, Chip autonomously establishes Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and monitors for deviations. When issues arise, it doesn't just alert you — it identifies which customer segments are affected, ensuring you focus on problems that truly impact your users and business.

Trusted by Fast-Growing Teams

Trusted by
World-Class Teams

Gautam Gopinadhan

CEO, Readyset.io

"We had a ROI problem with Observability. High costs with little value.

Cardinal stood out not only because of their differentiated architecture that allows us to send very high cardinality data without cost implications, but also because Chip extracts value from this cardinality – e.g. automatically surfacing customers that are impacted by a latency spike, and that's a big productivity win for my team!"

"We had a ROI problem with Observability. High costs with little value.

Cardinal stood out not only because of their differentiated architecture that allows us to send very high cardinality data without cost implications, but also because Chip extracts value from this cardinality – e.g. automatically surfacing customers that are impacted by a latency spike, and that's a big productivity win for my team!"

Bo Lei

CTO/Co-Founder, Fleak.ai

"For a startup that is always shipping, it's hard to stay on top of observability coverage for new features/services.

Chip does this for us. It figures out what to watch, and how to watch it, and then sends us actionable alerts when it sees problems.

It was quick and easy to onboard, and we have started relying on it ever since."

"For a startup that is always shipping, it's hard to stay on top of observability coverage for new features/services.

Chip does this for us. It figures out what to watch, and how to watch it, and then sends us actionable alerts when it sees problems.

It was quick and easy to onboard, and we have started relying on it ever since."

Rodman Stuhlmuller

Sr. DevOps Engineer, Aviatrix

"We used Cardinal to help us build an on-prem Observability Data Lake, and are in the process of replacing our incumbent storage layer.

An open Data Lake hosted within our own VPC gives us the flexibility to build custom user experiences on top of the data for our stakeholders and customers."

Rodman Stuhlmuller

Sr. DevOps Engineer, Aviatrix

"We used Cardinal to help us build an on-prem Observability Data Lake, and are in the process of replacing our incumbent storage layer.

An open Data Lake hosted within our own VPC gives us the flexibility to build custom user experiences on top of the data for our stakeholders and customers."

FAQ

Do I need to migrate from my existing Observability vendor?

No! We know how tedious migrations can be, and dislike them as much as you do. Chip can happily co-exist with your current o11y vendor or stack (until you decide you don't need it :)). You can send Chip a fork of your telemetry data using the OpenTelemetry pipeline that we help you set up during onboarding.

What tech stacks can Chip monitor?

Chip works best monitoring apps and services written in Java (or other JVM languages), Go, Node.js, Python, or Ruby, that are deployed on Kubernetes clusters. If you're not deployed on Kubernetes, we might still have something for you. Reach out to hello@cardinalhq.io and let us know!

Is Chip a good fit for my company or team?

We built Chip for high-velocity teams that are focused on building and shipping world-class products, and don't have the time or expertise to configure and maintain complex observability and monitoring tools. If that sounds like your team, Chip can become the Monitoring Agent that watches your back, with minimal effort on your part. That said, even if your company has made significant investments in observability and monitoring, we think you might still find Chip valuable, and would love for you to try us out!

How much time would I need to try Chip out?

Our customers are typically able to complete onboarding in under 30 minutes. This includes setting up vendor-neutral, OpenTelemetry auto-instrumention for your services, and an open-source Collector pipeline. Chip then begins to autonomously analyze and monitor critical telemetry signals, and alerts you only when high-impact issues are detected.

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