Real-time telemetry.
14x compression.
Sub-millisecond query.
Aether is the open, zero-overhead distributed telemetry engine for scaling engineering organizations. Ingest structured syslog format and OpenTelemetry payloads seamlessly, archive at ultra-low cost, and query with standard SQL.
curl -sS get.aether.sh | shActive Ingestion Rate
84.2 GB/sec
Average Compression
14.2:1 Ratio
Query Latency
< 0.8ms
SELECT level, count(*) FROM telemetry.logs
WHERE timestamp >= NOW() - INTERVAL '5 minutes'
GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 2 DESC;
// Query duration: 0.74ms (100% hits, 0 disk read)
Aether Core Architecture
Engineered for high throughput.
Designed for absolute efficiency.
Standard logging platforms choke on massive ingest rates or charge extortionate indexing fees. Aether uses a zero-index columnar layout to ingest raw data directly into highly compressed shards.
Dynamic Columnar Compression
By grouping telemetry payloads by schema attributes on ingest, Aether compresses repeated JSON strings using localized LZ4 tables. This slashes your cloud object storage footprint by a 14:1 ratio on average.
Index-Free Queries
Aether scans compressed binary arrays directly. Instead of managing millions of brittle index records, standard SQL queries run on-the-fly at raw memory bandwidth limits.
aether q "status=500"
✓ Found 1,481 records
Scan rate: 42.8 GB/sec
Duration: 0.74ms
OTel Native Pipeline
Connect your OpenTelemetry collectors directly. Aether serves as an OTLP-compliant endpoint for traces, metrics, and logs with absolutely zero proxy layers.
Seamless Storage Tiering
Store active traces in ultra-fast local NVMe nodes, and automatically migrate blocks older than 18 hours to low-cost cloud storage. Queries continue to target both tiers seamlessly with transparent decompression.
Hot Node (NVMe)
First 18 Hours
Archive (Object Storage)
Auto-migrated Archive
Slash your logging overhead by 90%.
Standard SaaS loggers charge per GB ingest and impose severe indexing multipliers. Aether decouples ingestion from storage, keeping pricing flat and linear. Slide to test your volume.
Monthly Telemetry Cost Comparison
Total Net Saved with Aether
$6,451 / month
Telemetry Proof of Performance
Loved by SREs and Platform Engineers
Discover how leading engineering teams have replaced fragile infrastructure and massive subscription fees with Aether.
"We shifted our entire Kubernetes log archive from Datadog to Aether and slashed our cloud spend by 89%. Searching across petabytes of compressed cold blocks takes under a second."
Elena Rostova
Principal Site Reliability Engineer, KubeCloud
"Aether was operational inside 10 minutes. The OpenTelemetry collector compatibility is bulletproof, and the query CLI is beautifully designed for developer automation."
Garrick Vance
VP of Platform Architecture, Specter AI
"Querying multi-structured JSON logs via standard SQL without indexing overhead feels like complete magic. Our cluster memory usage plummeted from 42GB to less than 2.8GB."
Marcus Chen
Lead DevOps & Security, HyperScale
Transparent Cost Metrics
Simple, pay-as-you-grow pricing
Deploy open-source nodes locally for free, or upgrade to Aether Cloud for automated replication, failover, and SSO.
Local Node
Free
Open-source distributed telemetry
- Unlimited local ingestion
- Columnar compression engine
- Standard CLI client & SQL query
- Automated multi-region replication
Aether Cloud
$29 / mo
Fully managed serverless nodes
- Up to 250 GB/day ingestion
- Dynamic cold tier storage to S3
- Automated alerting & dashboard hooks
- Priority email support (SLA < 2hr)
Enterprise
Custom
Compliance & custom architecture
- Unlimited multi-petabyte volumes
- SAML SSO & Role-Based RBAC
- Dedicated VPC private cloud deployments
- Dedicated account architect & 24/7 pager
Configure telemetry in 60 seconds
Launch our global, open installation script directly. No agents, no heavy JVM, no complex schema compilation.
Tested on Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL) and macOS (Intel & Apple Silicon). Size < 14 MB.