Bain Capital-backed Stackdriver, a public cloud monitoring start-up, pushed its widgetry out into public beta Tuesday.
The SaaS stuff currently works on Amazon Web Services and the Rackspace Cloud.
The year-old company says it’s got close to 100 AWS customers using its eponymous Stackdriver Intelligent Monitoring to reduce the complexity of managing their cloud-powered applications.
Market research done by Stackdriver’s founders Dan Belcher and Izzy Azeri, both veterans of VMware, found the cloud wasn’t delivering all the elasticity, performance and security it’s cracked up to, forcing users to hire DevOps engineers and write their own scripts, especially as their cloud environments grew larger and more complex.
It also found that the tools to hand weren’t designed with the cloud’s dynamic nature in mind.