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Middleware

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Full-stack Observability With AI SRE Agent

ObservabilitySan Francisco, California, US51–200 employeesFounded 2022

Visibility score
0.3%
New vs last week
Weekly run · Nov 3

Data collected ·ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode·coverage 100%·next run

  • Middleware ranks #35 of 45 in Observability with an AI visibility score of 0.3 (SlateIndex, Nov 3, 2026).
  • Middleware is most visible on Perplexity (0.9) and least on Google AI Mode (0).
  • AI engines name Middleware in 1 of the 30 Observability buyer prompts SlateIndex tracks.
  • cisco.com is the source AI engines cite most in answers about Middleware, with 1 citations.

About

Company details for Middleware

Middleware is a full-stack observability platform that monitors infrastructure, Kubernetes and containers, logs, application performance, databases, synthetic tests, real user sessions and LLM applications in one place. Its OpsAI component correlates signals across the stack, identifies root causes and suggests fixes. The platform uses OpenTelemetry as the framework for its agents and consolidates metrics, logs, traces and events on one timeline. It ranks #35 of 45 in Observability on SlateIndex and has a visibility score of 0.3 in the latest weekly run.

Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, US, the company employs 51–200 people. It has raised about $7M. Its differentiator: opsAI does not stop at detecting issues; it helps fix problems in production.

Categories
Observability
Company size
51–200 employees
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, US
Founded
2022
Company type
Private, venture-backed
Funding
Seed · $7M raised
Pricing
Free; paid from $0.3 / mo · usage-based
Free trial
Free plan available
Deployment
Agent-based install, including a Kubernetes install agent for connecting clusters and a single-agent script for auto-instrumentation.
Support
Community-based support on the free plan, Dedicated Slack or MS Teams channel on pay-as-you-go, 24x7 support on custom contracts

Read from linkedin.com, middleware.io, g2.com, prnewswire.com, apmdigest.com · refreshed Nov 3, 2026.

AI visibility

Latest weekly run · Nov 3 · next run Nov 9

Visibility score
0.3%
across Observability answers, weighted by position
ChatGPT0%
AI Mode0%
Perplexity0.9%
Change
New
vs last week’s run
Category rank
#35 of 45
in Observability
Mentions
1
in this week’s run
Share of voice
0.2%
of AI mentions in Observability

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days, with up to 7 competitors. Click a name to hide or show its line.

Now0.3%
30-day change—
High · low0.3% · 0.3%
Rank#35
0%25%50%75%100%Nov 3Middleware 0%

Changes appear after the second weekly run in Observability. Datadog leads the category at 69.5%.

Media

Website and product screenshots for Middleware

All media

AI mentions & citations

Recent answers that name Middleware

All prompts

No mentions in the latest run.

Products & features

What Middleware sells

Infrastructure Monitoring

Host, VM and cloud service monitoring with high-cardinality metrics, anomaly detection and AI dashboards.

Container Monitoring

Kubernetes and container visibility with cluster-level health dashboards.

Log Monitoring

Log search and analysis correlated with traces and metrics, with AI-powered QueryGenie.

Database Monitoring

Query-level performance monitoring for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra and Aurora.

Synthetic Monitoring

API and browser journey tests run from multiple locations to detect availability and latency issues.

Application Performance Monitoring

Distributed tracing, continuous profiling and service dependency views.

Real User Monitoring

Web and mobile user session replay correlated with backend traces.

LLM Observability

Monitoring of LLM applications and AI agents, including latency, token usage, cost and errors.

OpsAI

AI component that detects, diagnoses and helps fix production issues.

Target market & buyers

Engineering teams

Notable customers include Corgi, Bardeen.ai, MindOrigin, Generation Esports, Trademarkia, Revenium, Hotplate, Ace Turtle.

Funding & recent developments

Funding

RoundYearAmount
Seed2023$7M
Latest known roundTotal raised
Seed$7M

Recent developments

  1. Jun 2026ProductPlatform upgrade with cost controls and faster root-cause analysis

    An upgraded platform with telemetry and cost controls, faster root-cause analysis, new monitoring and wider integrations.

  2. Jun 2026ProductProduct updates: MCP server, LLM observability and log anomaly detection

    Product updates for June 2026 cover an MCP server, LLM observability and log anomaly detection.

  3. Jun 2025ProductOps AI launched

    Middleware launched Ops AI, an autonomous tool for detecting and resolving production issues.

Competitive landscape

How Middleware compares with its top three alternatives

All alternatives

Middleware most often appears alongside Datadog, Grafana, New Relic in AI answers.

BrandVisibilityShare of voicevs last weekStarting price
Middleware0.3%0.2%NewFree plan
Datadog69.5%11%New$0.05 / mo
Grafana47.8%9.8%NewFree plan
New Relic47.1%10.7%NewFree plan
Dynatrace39.9%8%New$1.4 / mo

Pricing

Usage-based pricing with a free plan

Full pricing
Free Forever$0month
Pay As You Go$0.3GB of metrics, logs, traces
CustomCustomcustom pricing

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Middleware AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/middleware, data of Nov 3, 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.