Opstrace is a brand that offers a unified observability platform for your DevOps needs. With the rapid adoption of cloud-native technologies and distributed systems, simply monitoring your application and related systems is no longer sufficient. Opstrace aims to make data manageable, understandable, and feedback-ready for every stage of the DevOps process.

Their mission is to empower users with continuous insight into the state and behavior of their software systems. By leveraging ubiquitous telemetry data in a unique fashion, Opstrace provides users with observability not just in production, but across every stage of the DevOps process. Opstrace was acquired by GitLab to jumpstart the plan to offer an observability solution in the One DevOps platform.

They added two foundational capabilities to the GitLab platform: the GitLab Observability Backend for data management and the GitLab Observability UI for data visualization. Opstrace plans to continue investing in and maturing these areas. Their strategy focuses on providing a unified data store, integrating the UI directly within GitLab, playing well with the community, and reducing operational complexity.

With Opstrace, organizations have the choice of using an observability vendor or building their own platform. Opstrace offers an open and managed platform, allowing teams to confidently upgrade and maintain their open-source observability tooling. In the future, Opstrace plans to enable capabilities such as using their observability solution as a managed or self-managed service, or even connecting it to GitLab Observability SaaS.

With an ambitious vision and leveraging GitLab's strength as a comprehensive DevOps platform, Opstrace aims to bring users into their observability solution. Their current focus is on addressing the management of defects in code and prioritizing the most impactful bugs