Monitoring & Observability Software Hosted in Germany

1 monitoring & observability tool hosted in Germany, compliant with Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG).

GDPR & Monitoring & Observability

Application logs and monitoring data are a frequently overlooked source of personal data. Error logs contain user email addresses, request logs include IP addresses and session tokens, database query logs expose customer records, and stack traces may reveal API keys and user identifiers. Monitoring platforms ingest massive volumes of this data continuously, making them one of the largest personal data processing activities in any technology organisation. When your monitoring platform is operated by a US company like Datadog or New Relic, every log line, trace, and metric containing personal data is processed on US infrastructure. European monitoring platforms keep your observability data within the EU, ensuring that the personal data flowing through your logs and metrics is protected by GDPR. This is especially important because log data is often retained for weeks or months for debugging purposes, creating a persistent store of personal data that requires GDPR-compliant retention and deletion policies.

Data Protection in Germany

Monitoring & Observability data hosted in Germany is protected under Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG), which implements the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This ensures your monitoring & observability data stays under European jurisdiction and cannot be compelled for disclosure under non-EU law.

What to Look For in Monitoring & Observability

Application performance monitoring
Log management
Alerting
Distributed tracing
Uptime monitoring

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