Who we are
We are observability veterans who empower ambitious teams to grow big and scale seamlessly with end-to-end visibility, rapid support, and affordable pricing that grows with you, not ahead of you.
About Sematext
Sematext runs Sematext Cloud - infrastructure and application performance monitoring and log management solution that gives businesses full-stack visibility by exposing logs, metrics and traces through a single Cloud or On Premise solution. Sematext also provides Consulting, Training, and Production Support for Elasticsearch, the ELK/Elastic Stack, and Apache Solr.
Unlike other vendors who typically offer only performance monitoring tools, or only logging tools, or only Big Data consulting services, etc., Sematext pulls together all of these related core competencies that organizations need to make informed decisions from their data into one solution suite of products and services.
Unlike other vendors who typically offer only performance monitoring tools, or only logging tools, or only Big Data consulting services, etc., Sematext pulls together all of these related core competencies that organizations need to make informed decisions from their data into one solution suite of products and services.
History
Sematext was founded by Otis Gospodnetić, a Lucene and Solr expert, co-author of Lucene in Action (1st and 2nd editions), and a member of Lucene, Solr, Nutch, and Mahout development teams. The company is entirely self-funded and has been profitable and cash flow positive from day one without ever taking on debt or external funding.
Over time we have established presence in a number of countries and on several continents, which allows us to easily serve our diverse clientele from Fortune 100 organizations to startups — and everything in between — 24/7 across different time zones.
Over time we have established presence in a number of countries and on several continents, which allows us to easily serve our diverse clientele from Fortune 100 organizations to startups — and everything in between — 24/7 across different time zones.
Spring 2010
Sematext launched as Sematext International Initially a consulting shop focused on Apache Lucene and Apache Solr, later adding coverage for Elasticsearch and ELK Stack
Fall 2013
Sematext Monitoring launched Initially providing monitoring for Apache Solr and Elasticsearch with additional integrations coming later
Summer 2014
Sematext Logs launched The first Elasticsearch as a Service SaaS on the market. Industry first tight integration of performance metrics and logs
Summer 2015
Distributed Transaction Tracing launched. Sematext is the first vendor to provide the three pillars of observability: monitoring, logs, and tracing
Summer 2017
Sematext Cloud launched both in North America and Europe
Summer 2017
First ever all hands gathering in Split, Croatia
Summer 2017
20 people
2018
Team gathering in Barcelona
2019
Sematext Experience launched. Team gathering in Zagreb, Croatia
2020
Synthetic Monitoring launched
2021
Team gathering in Dubrovnik, Croatia
2022
Team gathering in Antalya, Turkey
Summer 2023
Team gathering held in Malaga, Spain
Fall 2023
Completely revamped Kubernetes Monitoring
2024
Sematext celebrates 10 years since its founding as Sematext International
Summer 2024
Get ready for Sematext's Windows monitoring debut!
How we work
Fully-distributed team, with members distributed over several continents. Although small, we are widely recognized for our expertise and are highly regarded – our clients come to us not because of our marketing, but because they hear we do good work. Expectations are high but in a collaborative, mentoring, team-first environment that promotes the success of our products as well as individuals.
13+
years of experience
100+
enterprise clients
30%
Avg cost reduction
15k+
clusters optimized
Meet the team
We are a fully distributed team, spread across several continents
Euan Clark
Search architect
Veteran 27 years experience as developer, architect, technical lead. Current focus on Elasticsearch, Node.JS, Go, Terraform and Backend.
Seán Monahan
Customer success manager
With a keen interest in sales and technology, I work alongside the engineering team to ensure that our customers and new users have the best possible experience with us. I spend most of my free time watching & reading about rugby.
Otis Gospodnetić
CEO & founder
Lucene and Solr veteran, book author, loves search, data, trend graphs, and all things marine.
Emina Huskić
Software engineer
With some experience in Ruby, Java, JavaScript, React, and currently exploring TypeScript & Go. When I am not typing code and drinking coffee, you’ll find me either on a ski trip, on a hike, or swimming in the ocean.
Vishwash Bajpai
Software engineer
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Ajdin Hadžić
Frontend developer
JavaScript Front-End developer currently exploring the depths of React and TypeScript. When I'm not programming I'm creating fantasy worlds as creative writing is one of my passions.
Marko Bonaći
Frontend lead
Experienced Java and JavaScript developer. Currently focused on React. Spark in Action co-author. Likes exploring new technologies, when his twins allow.
Fulya Ulutürk
Product manager
Experienced in Log Management & Monitoring products. Architectural and engineering manager background, now focused on product vision and strategy.
Pavao Zornija
Full-stack developer
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Haris Salman
Software engineer
Software engineer with an interest in security, learning more and more every day. Likes to watch history documentaries and occasionally dabbles in creative writing.
Pablo Beltran de Casso
Beckend engineer
Focused on backend development in Go and Kotlin as well as technical writing. Likes self-hosting, reading and adventure sports in the sea and the mountain.
Soham Chakraborty
SysAdmin / SRE
Deep experience on Linux based systems, specializing in system performance, cost management, architecture planning. He prefers to debug a problem till the very end and find a resolution. These days, he likes to do automate everything in his job and put it in git.
Costas Pipilas
Product manager
Passionate technologist, startupper, and leader with over 20 years of expertise in product, business management and innovation.
Akshat Agarwal
Software Engineer
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Bora Tanrikulu
Software engineer
A person who loves to create simple solutions. Interested in Go, Distributed Systems, Observability, Kubernetes, and eBPF.
Matija Čoklica
DevOps engineer
Career started in InfoSec, got experienced in Elastic Stack, now gravitating towards DevOps – mostly k8s and IaaC tools… In free time? Board games, D&D, digital drawing, listening to good music and enjoying craft beer with my friends.
Lovro Milaković
Marketing manager
Digital marketer obsessed with growth, media buying, and great UX. Finds relaxation in combat sports, long walks, and stuff.
Paryul Singhai
Software engineer
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Eromosele Akhigbe
Junio software engineer
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Haris Ovčina
Product designer
Architect turned product designer, always looking for ways on how to improve current processes and make them ever so slightly useful and more beautiful.
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