Launch HN: Sift Dev (YC W25) – AI-Powered Datadog Alternative

Hi HN! We're Kaushik and Ishir. We’re building SiftDev ( https://app.trysift.dev/docs ), an intelligent logging tool that understands your observability data in real time, automatically identifies anomalies, and lets you interact with your logs through natural language queries. Here’s a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ-TTdiu3fc&t=20s , and there's a demo playground you can try out here: https://app.trysift.dev/ We used to work on product and engineering at Datadog and Splunk. We saw how even teams using these industry-leading tools were struggling to effectively interpret and use their logging data. The sheer volume of logs overwhelmed experts and newcomers alike, making it difficult to quickly identify meaningful issues or patterns. Despite powerful indexing and search capabilities, developers still had to manually piece together context from different logs, dashboards, and sources—a tedious and error-prone process. The “noisy logging” problem—that is, the gap between ... Read full article.