Built by SREs who got tired of tab-switching.
In January 2025, Christopher Pham and Alex Morgan started Logpathio to solve the problem they'd lived with across multiple on-call rotations: three tools, zero correlation, and root causes found by luck as much as skill.
The outage that started it all
In late 2024, Christopher was the on-call SRE at a fintech infrastructure company running 80+ microservices across three cloud providers. At 2:14am, a PagerDuty alert fired — API gateway error rate spiking to 40%. He opened Datadog logs, searched for errors, found 4,000 events. Switched to Jaeger for traces, searched by service, found a suspect span. Pulled open Grafana to check the metrics — where was the memory spike? 47 minutes later, the root cause was a Redis connection pool exhaustion in a service three hops upstream that none of the individual tools had linked together.
The next morning, Christopher described the night to Alex Morgan, his CTO counterpart at another company. "We could see all the data," Christopher said. "We just couldn't see the connection." Alex had the same story, different company, same 47-minute MTTR.
They started building Logpathio in January 2025. Not to add another monitoring dashboard to the stack — but to build the one tool that draws the connections between logs, traces, and metrics automatically, and tells you which service caused the cascade. In plain English. Before you finish joining the incident bridge.
The people building Logpathio
Former on-call SRE at a fintech infrastructure company. 8 years of distributed systems operations across AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes. Built and maintained three internal observability toolchains before deciding the problem deserved a purpose-built tool.
Distributed systems engineer specializing in stream processing and real-time event pipelines. Previously led backend infrastructure at a logistics platform handling 2M+ events per minute across three cloud regions. Wrote the correlation engine that became Logpathio.
Three principles we build by
Signal, not noise
We show you the causal chain, not a full log stream. If you wanted to scroll through 4,000 log lines, grep is free. Logpathio exists to name the service that started the cascade.
Engineer-first
Built for people who live in terminals, not in meeting rooms. Every UI decision is made by asking: "Would I want to use this at 3am during a P1 incident?" If the answer is no, we redesign.
Honest about limits
We are early. We ship fast. We tell you when something isn't built yet. If you ask about a feature that's on our roadmap, we'll say so. If it's not, we'll say that too.
Want to shape how Logpathio evolves?
We are not building another log viewer or a dashboard platform. We are building a root cause engine. Every early-access user talks to Christopher directly in week one — because that conversation is how we know we're building the right thing.