bitdrift provides mobile observability solutions designed to capture rich, real-world telemetry from mobile applications. The platform uses on-device storage and ring buffers to efficiently capture unlimited data while only sending relevant signals for analysis. This allows developers to quickly debug crashes, non-fatal errors, and performance issues without requiring app redeployments.
Funding
$17.6M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Traditional mobile observability solutions often lack comprehensive data capture and impose high costs due to excessive data ingestion and storage. Mobile developers struggle with limited visibility into application performance and user experience, hindering efficient debugging and issue resolution. Existing solutions also suffer from slow feedback cycles, requiring app releases to update observability configurations.
Solution
bitdrift provides a mobile observability platform that enables developers to log all telemetry data while selectively storing only the most useful information, optimizing cost and improving debugging efficiency. The platform utilizes a fixed-resource Ring Buffer within its SDK to enable high-volume, low-overhead local telemetry storage, effectively making logging "free" until data upload is required. A real-time control plane allows developers to retrieve buffered data on demand from specific clients, enabling distributed parallel telemetry queries across millions of devices. This approach allows for instant deployment of telemetry changes without waiting for release cycles, providing a real-time view into customer experiences and accelerating issue resolution.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes mobile developers and engineering teams seeking comprehensive, cost-effective observability solutions to improve application performance, user experience, and debugging efficiency.
Features
- Efficient, fixed-resource usage log event buffer with flush rules configured via real-time APIs
- Out-of-the-box integrations for platform-specific data, UX session replay, network and resource utilization
- Local telemetry storage using a Ring Buffer for high-volume, low-overhead data capture
- Real-time control plane for on-demand data retrieval from specific clients
- Server-side rule updates compiled to Finite State Machines and deployed to clients for targeted data upload
- Clean user interface integrating disparate data sources for faster debugging and incident resolution
- Session timeline with custom visualizations and privacy-conscious session replay
- Ability to build synthetic metrics off existing logging without mobile deploys
- BYOB (Bring Your Own Blob) storage option for strict control over sensitive data