Plexus
Plexus provides a hosted time-series database and dashboard platform for hardware teams building drones, robots, and other physical products. It stores sensor data for years, automatically rolls it up for fast queries, and highlights which units need attention—while connecting to existing stacks like Postgres, TimescaleDB, and ClickHouse. The platform includes natural-language chart building and alerts via Slack, email, or on-call phone calls.
- Internet of Things
- Robotics
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Hardware startups building satellites, robots, and other physical products often spend their first year creating internal databases, dashboards, and monitoring tools just to see what their machines are doing—work that is not the product itself. This delays iteration and diverts engineering talent away from improving the actual machine.
Solution
Plexus provides a hosted time-series database and dashboard platform built specifically for hardware teams. It stores sensor readings from drones, robots, and other devices, automatically rolls up data for fast queries over long time ranges, and visualizes everything in dashboards that highlight which units need attention. The platform connects to existing stacks including Postgres, TimescaleDB, ClickHouse, MySQL, and QuestDB, and accepts Prometheus data via remote_write, so teams keep their current infrastructure. Alerts reach users through Slack, email, or on-call phone calls, and users can query data via HTTP API or export it as CSV or Parquet for external analysis.
Target Audience
Primary customers are early-stage hardware startups with teams of 2 to 50 people building physical products such as drones, robots, satellites, sensors, and medical devices, who need to monitor machine data without building internal tooling.
Features
- Hosted time-series database with automatic 1-minute and hourly rollups, supporting up to 3 years of raw data retention on Pro plans with configurable per-device retention
- Dashboards showing every device in one place, with anomaly highlighting (e.g., motor temperature deviations) across an entire fleet
- Connections to existing databases including Postgres, TimescaleDB, ClickHouse, MySQL, and QuestDB via read-only live queries
- Prometheus remote_write support for ingesting existing monitoring data
- HTTP API for querying any metric over any time range with JSON responses, plus WebSocket live data streaming and CSV/Parquet bulk export
- Natural-language chart building: users describe the chart they want and build it on existing data
- Alerting with Slack, email, and on-call phone call delivery
- Video storage for live connections and commands during device operation