Asserts
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Asserts provides monitoring and observability software for distributed cloud applications, enabling engineering teams to define runtime assertions and manage monitoring as code rather than through disjointed dashboards and alerts.
Founders & leadership
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Manoj AcharyainFounder & CEO2020–2023He founded Asserts.ai in 2020 and later served as VP of Engineering at Grafana Labs following its acquisition. Earlier, he spent a decade at AppDynamics as a founding engineer, then Sr. Director and VP of Engineering, and Entrepreneur-in-Residence on its Commercialization & Growth team, after architect roles at Citi and Tavant Technologies.
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Alex RamosinFounding Engineer2020–2023
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Jim GehrettinFounding Engineer2020–2023
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Nandakumar DeviinFounding Engineer
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Radhakrishnan JankiramaninFounding Engineer2020–2023
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Competitors · 10
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Better Stack36 shared keywordsBetter Stack is an observability and monitoring platform offering log management, metrics, incident alerting, and status pages for engineering teams, positioned as a cheaper alternative to Datadog. It targets software teams ranging from indie hackers to publicly traded companies.
Grafana Labs34 shared keywordsGrafana Labs builds an observability platform that collects, visualizes, and alerts on metrics, logs, traces, and profiles from multiple data sources. The platform serves operators and DevOps teams managing complex systems at scale, with AI-powered features to reduce data waste.
SigNoz30 shared keywordsSigNoz provides observability and monitoring tools that help DevOps engineers and developers reduce noise and extract actionable signals from their systems. The platform serves engineering teams working with microservices and distributed systems.
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Dynatrace20 shared keywordsDynatrace provides a platform for unified observability, security, and business data analytics across clouds and containers. The platform integrates AI-driven automation, agentic operations, and custom app development to help enterprises optimize infrastructure performance and enable autonomous operations.
VividCortex20 shared keywordsSolarWinds offers an AI-powered IT operations platform for enterprise IT teams, providing monitoring, observability, incident response, IT service management, and database performance across hybrid IT environments. Its tools help organizations detect issues, reduce downtime, and meet service level agreements.
Sysdig19 shared keywordsSysdig provides cloud-native security across the cloud lifecycle, offering real-time runtime threat detection, vulnerability management, and an AI agent that embeds security inside AI coding platforms. It serves development and security teams, including organizations in heavily regulated industries.
New Relic18 shared keywordsNew Relic provides a full-stack observability platform that allows engineering teams to monitor and troubleshoot software systems across their entire stack. The platform serves development and operations teams who need unified data access to plan, build, deploy, and run software applications.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Asserts do?
- Asserts provides monitoring and observability software for distributed cloud applications, enabling engineering teams to define runtime assertions and manage monitoring as code rather than through disjointed dashboards and alerts.
- Who founded Asserts?
- Asserts was founded by Manoj Acharya.
- Who are Asserts's investors?
- Asserts's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Icon Ventures.