Chkk helps keep complex Kubernetes environments up and running
Summary
As Kubernetes is being deployed for ever more mission critical workloads, keeping clusters up and running has become increasingly important for DevOps teams. We help them reduce availability risks, and prevent incidents and downtime from happening and help them operate safely and efficiently, CEO Nemat told TechCrunch.They do this by monitoring the clusters and sending alerts when there is a potential problem that could bring a cluster down, so the team can deal with it before there is a crisis situation. CTO Khaliq says that one of the things he learned at AWS was that the same set of issues afflicted customers repeatedly, but they didnt set up a system to detect and prevent those issues.We came up with a very simple idea, simple to its core, that if theres any error, incident or disruption that has happened anywhere in the world, we will learn about it, he said. Quite a few customers signed up and weve worked with a handful of companies very closely over this last eight months and they are running in their production environments with tens of clusters within each customer, Nemat said.The company currently has 15 employees, but they plan to be careful with hiring until they see how the product does in the market after this weeks general release. Taking diverse opinions helps us empathize with a broad range of customers and build better products simply by taking into account what [people from different backgrounds] think and discovering problems that you otherwise cannot find on your own, Nemat said.The company bootstrapped for the first year or so before closing the $5.2 million in funding from Sequoia in May.