Scalyr
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Scalyr is a San Mateo log management and analytics provider, acquired by SentinelOne in 2021 and rebranded DataSet.
Also known as DataSet · Dataset, Inc. · Scalyr, Inc.
Founders & leadership
Board
Investors · 7
Also in the syndicate · 2
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$32M disclosed across 2 of 3 rounds · 2015–2018
▶$5.5MraisedMay 2018 · 5 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Steve NewmanExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
- Jason PressmanDirector
- Offering amount
- $5.5M
- Amount sold
- $5.5M
- First sale
- Apr 2018
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$26.5MraisedNov 2017 · 8 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Jason PressmanDirector
- Steve NewmanExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
- Offering amount
- $26.5M
- Amount sold
- $26.5M
- First sale
- Nov 2017
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Scalyr, Inc. (later Dataset, Inc.) is a server log monitoring and data analytics company headquartered in San Mateo, California. Incorporated in 2011, it offers an integrated suite of server monitoring, log management, visualization and analysis tools that aggregates metrics into a centralized system in real time and can be integrated with cloud services.
The software-as-a-service product combines log aggregation, search and analysis, server metrics, dashboards and alerts, and external monitoring in a single tool. Its core event database ingests data from multiple sources, including an agent installed on customer servers to collect logs and server metrics, Scalyr monitors that probe servers or import Amazon cloud metrics, and an SSL-based API. The platform was used alongside on-call scheduling and alerting tools such as PagerDuty.
Following SentinelOne's acquisition, the offering was rebranded DataSet and marketed as "A SentinelOne solution." The dataset.com marketing website has since been retired and redirects to SentinelOne, while the product console, logins, data, integrations and the support portal at support.dataset.com remain in place; SentinelOne positions its AI SIEM as the next evolution of the log analytics and threat detection capabilities DataSet provides.
Founding story
Steve Newman had the idea for Scalyr while working at Google, drawing on his experience with performance-tracking and server diagnostic tools. Newman had previously founded Writely in 2005, whose technology was acquired and became Google Docs. Scalyr was founded by Newman together with Steven Czerwinski, also a former Google executive, and incorporated in 2011.
Business model
Scalyr sells its log management and monitoring capabilities as a software-as-a-service subscription, with customers accessing a hosted console; EU-hosted consoles and FedRAMP environments are also supported. Following the acquisition it operates as a business unit of SentinelOne serving existing customers.
Traction
At the time of the February 2021 acquisition Scalyr had approximately 50 employees, all of whom SentinelOne said it planned to retain.
Latest developments
The DataSet product continued to ship monthly releases through January 2025, adding features such as expanded PowerQuery API query length, improved S3 batch exports, additional dashboard tabs and a compare command with timeshift. Branding was updated to reflect SentinelOne ownership, and the dataset.com marketing website has been retired and redirects to SentinelOne, with consoles, logins, data, integrations and support unchanged.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Scalyr operated in enterprise log management, log analysis and monitoring software. SentinelOne's COO stated the company evaluated the market and concluded Scalyr was the only acquirable company with its type of technology, citing ingestion of data from any source regardless of format, processing speed and scale.
Scalyr's approach unifies log aggregation, search and analysis, server metrics, dashboards, alerts and external monitoring in one tool, and can query unstructured data as it is being indexed, reducing the schema requirements typically needed to ingest logs and other unstructured data in real time.
Technology
The platform is built around a core event database designed to ingest data from a wide variety of sources without extensive data schema requirements, including an agent installed on customer servers, monitors that probe servers or import Amazon cloud metrics, and an SSL-based API. A distinguishing capability is the ability to query unstructured data while it is being indexed, enabling high-speed ingestion and search at scale. Product features include Event Search, dashboards with multiple tabs, alerts and webhooks, PowerQueries with operators such as timeshift and compare, geo functions, parsers, batch exports to Amazon S3, cross-team searches and alerts, an OpenTelemetry DataSet Exporter, and integrations with tools including PagerDuty, Grafana Cloud and Salesforce event log ingestion.
Go-to-market
Enterprise IT, DevOps and security operations teams that need to aggregate, search and analyze large volumes of server log and metric data, including organizations requiring EU-hosted or FedRAMP environments.
Geography
Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with EU-hosted console availability and FedRAMP environments for US public-sector deployments.
History
Scalyr was incorporated in 2011 in San Mateo, California. It raised a $2.1 million seed round in April 2015 led by Susa Ventures. In January 2019 Christine Heckart, a former Cisco and Brocade executive, was announced as CEO. In February 2021 SentinelOne announced the acquisition of Scalyr for $155 million in cash and equity, retaining roughly 50 Scalyr employees as a separate business unit. SentinelOne raised $103 million in February 2021, partly to fund the deal. The product was subsequently rebranded DataSet, with product release notes continuing through at least January 2025, and the dataset.com marketing site later retired in favor of SentinelOne.
Compiled by commissioned research from 6 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 5
by search overlap
Companies competing with Scalyr for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 5
launches, deals, and filingsThe dataset.com marketing website was retired and now redirects to SentinelOne; the product console, logins, data, integrations and support portal remain unchanged.
A product release updated the DataSet logo to include the tagline "A SentinelOne solution."
SentinelOne announced the acquisition of Scalyr for $155 million in cash and equity, planning to integrate its log ingestion and query technology into the Singularity XDR platform and retain approximately 50 Scalyr employees as a separate business unit.
$155M source ↗
Christine Heckart, previously an executive at Cisco and Brocade, was announced as Scalyr's new CEO.
Scalyr raised a $2.1 million seed round led by Susa Ventures, with participation from Bloomberg Beta, Google Ventures, Sherpalo Ventures and Othman Laraki.
$2.1M source ↗
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
Ex-Googlers raise $20M in funding for Scalyr to take on Splunksiliconangle.com · Nov 2017
Scalyr scores $20M Series A for super-fast log reading tooltechcrunch.com · Nov 2017▸Research sources · 6
primary sources listed
- Scalyrscalyr.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Scalyr do?
- Scalyr is a San Mateo log management and analytics provider, acquired by SentinelOne in 2021 and rebranded DataSet.
- Who founded Scalyr?
- Scalyr was founded by Steve Newman, Steven Czerwinski.
- Who are Scalyr's investors?
- Scalyr's investors include Bloomberg Beta, GV (Google Ventures), Heroic Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Susa Ventures.
- How much funding has Scalyr raised?
- Scalyr has disclosed $32M raised across 2 of its 3 known rounds.
- Where is Scalyr headquartered?
- Scalyr is headquartered in San Mateo, US.