base14.io provides an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces, and LLM telemetry in a single columnar data lake. The platform enables full-cardinality, full-retention querying across all signals with no sampling, while reducing storage costs by up to 80% compared to legacy tools. It offers drop-in OpenTelemetry collectors for five-minute deployment and a zero-maintenance, fully managed service.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Product
Problem
Legacy observability platforms force teams to choose between high costs, data sampling, or fragmented tooling, often requiring separate systems for logs, metrics, traces, and application performance monitoring. This fragmentation prevents effective cross-signal correlation, hides critical outliers, and drives up infrastructure expenses, especially as telemetry volumes grow.
Solution
base14.io delivers a purpose-built, columnar storage engine that unifies all telemetry signals—logs, metrics, traces, APM, and LLM data—into a single, queryable data lake. Built natively on OpenTelemetry standards, the platform allows a single SQL query to join across all signal types at the storage layer, enabling true cross-signal correlation without data movement. The service ingests data with zero sampling or pre-aggregation, preserving full cardinality and resolution, while compressing telemetry to reduce costs by up to 80% versus legacy platforms. It offers 30 days of hot retention on disk, followed by perpetual warm storage in customer-owned S3-compatible buckets, with APM and RUM baselines retained for 180 days. Deployment is streamlined with drop-in OpenTelemetry collectors that auto-instrument applications in minutes, and the platform is fully managed, requiring zero maintenance from users.
Target Audience
Primary customers are engineering and DevOps teams at mid-to-large enterprises that require high-cardinality, full-fidelity observability across cloud-native and AI workloads, particularly those already standardized on OpenTelemetry or seeking to avoid vendor lock-in.
Features
- Single query surface with native SQL interface for joining logs, metrics, traces, and LLM telemetry at the storage layer
- Zero sampling or pre-aggregation, supporting unlimited cardinality dimensions and sub-second queries on billions of data points
- Purpose-built telemetry compression achieving up to 80% cost reduction versus legacy observability tools
- 30-day hot, full-resolution retention on disk with bring-your-own S3-compatible bucket for perpetual warm, queryable storage
- 180-day default retention for APM and RUM baseline summaries
- Drop-in OpenTelemetry collectors with auto-instrumentation enabling five-minute deployment
- Fully managed, zero-maintenance platform with proactive monitoring and seamless updates