Qpoint Closes Pre-Seed Funding and Launches eBPF-based Monitoring and Control for External APIs and Services

We’ll jump into the news in a second, but first, the back story.

The meteoric rise of cloud-based infrastructure and services over the last decade has completely changed how modern applications are built and deployed. Gone are the days of self-contained monolithic architectures where every dependency runs within your corporate network. Modern developers instead rely on a wide range of external APIs and services to power essential features and deliver business outcomes faster. These integrations fuel essential functions like payments, authentication, provisioning, and analytics—but they're often behind some of operators' worst days and most challenging moments.

Outages. Slowdowns. Surprise rate limiting. Unrestricted external access. Privacy and compliance blind spots. Unattributed cloud costs and bandwidth usage. Finger pointing. And painfully slow, system-by-system troubleshooting by a team of seasoned operators from your company and the vendor drastically slows mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) for business impacting issues.

The Qpoint team lived these external integration problems firsthand at some of the most popular software and infrastructure companies in the world including Shopify, Instacart, NS1 and HashiCorp. It’s a huge blind spot for any company — including large enterprises with a stack of legacy application performance monitoring (APM), network observability, and API management tools.

A company can easily have hundreds of external API integrations that — until now — were very difficult to monitor and control. While these dependencies are technically not your services, they are increasingly your problem. 

So, we decided to do something about it. 

External Service Observability and Security Powered by eBPF

With two years of innovation and testing behind us, we’re pleased to announce both our pre-seed funding and the availability of the eBPF-based Qpoint platform.

Qpoint is the first purpose-built solution to enable operators to easily see and control their mission-critical external services and traffic. Powered by eBPF, Qpoint transparently taps into the flow of requests between your apps and their third-party dependencies to deliver game changing insights without data leaving your environment. Deployed in just minutes, Qpoint delivers instant visibility and the foundation needed to boost operational resilience and enforce a true zero-trust security model — with zero compromises for developers driving innovation.

Operators and SREs can use Qpoint to address any integration-related pain point, including:

• External Service Reliability: Immediately identify issues or anomalous behavior with external services to minimize impacts on mission-critical applications.
• Rate Limit Detection: Continuously track external API usage, providing alerts when nearing capacity limits to prevent throttling and maintain availability for production systems.
• Root Cause Analysis and Debugging: Enable improved analysis and troubleshooting of integration-related issues for dramatically faster mean time to resolution.
• Cloud Bandwidth and Billing Attribution: Get insight into bandwidth utilization to accurately attribute resource usage and cloud costs to specific teams or projects.
• Vendor Audit Trails: Track vendor API interactions to provide clear evidence of SLA violations and ensure vendor accountability
• Zero Trust Security: Limit access to external endpoints to only those applications that have been explicitly authorized, minimizing the risk of unauthorized access and sensitive data exposure.

Qpoint transforms how companies oversee their external service integrations. It gives ops teams confidence about what is happening within the systems they are responsible for, and the ability to quickly see what’s not working and dramatically speed remediation.

Special thanks to Mango Capital (lead investor), Preface Ventures, Scribble Ventures, and Bloomberg Beta for recognizing the incredible opportunity to fill the widening gap in today’s tools that fails to cover critical external services integrations at companies of all sizes and across all industries. 

Get Instant Visibility Into Your External Dependencies and Traffic

You can try Qpoint for yourself in just minutes. Check out our documentation, take it for a spin, and let us know what you think.