Patchwork automates logging from code to storage. We make it simple to implement actionable, structured logging across your entire codebase
The next generation logging and observability platform
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### The next generation logging and observability platform

Patchwork automates logging from code to storage. We make it simple to implement actionable, structured logging across your entire codebase



Patchwork Technologies

Founded:2024

Team Size:3

Location:London, United Kingdom

### Active Founders

### Ben Hall, Founder

Prior to Patchwork, Ben spent almost 5 years at Palantir, mixing code and sales. Most recently he led the company's zero-to-one effort in the EMEA Utilities sector – an engineer in the deep end of sales. He was founding Principal Engineer at deep tech startup, Oxford Flow. The startup spun out of Oxford Uni's aerospace lab, where he had carried out his PhD research in jet engine aerodynamics. Ben has a patent and research papers with collectively thousands of downloads.



### Sam Kramer, Founder

Prior PatchWork, Sam spent six years at Palantir, splitting his time equally between product and business development. Sam has done everything from fixing availability bugs in Paxos protocol implementations to running relationships with customer IT.



### Alex Maass, Founder

Prior to Patchwork, Alex spent 9 years at Palantir as a Forward Deployed Engineering Lead and as a Production Engineering Manager. He has led globally distributed teams to deliver client facing projects across diverse industries. As a Production Engineering Manager, Alex led and grew the EMEA team and was responsible for special projects with some of Palantir's most critical clients. Prior to Palantir, Alex had hardware engineering internships at Nvidia and MSI.



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[### Patchwork Technologies: Automated logging from code to storage](

[Patchwork]( automates logging from code to storage. Developers no longer need to manually write or re-write logs — Patchwork does it for them. Actionable, context-rich, secure logs can become the new standard across your entire codebase.

The product currently works with Java, Go, Python, Ruby, TypeScript, JavaScript, Scala, and Kotlin.

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**The Problem with Logs**
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Manually instrumenting code with logging is time-consuming and tedious. Unlike building features, logging doesn’t earn promotions. Logs are written by developers but consumed by SREs and security engineers once in production.

Picture this: a critical incident strikes at 2 AM. Your SREs are scrambling, frantically searching through a mess of inconsistent logs, trying to piece together what went wrong. Sound familiar? That’s because logging, as it stands today, is broken.

Empires like Splunk have been built on the premise that messy logs are a fact of life and you therefore need to fork out for best-in-class indexing and querying. We say it’s time to tackle this problem at the source.



**Patchwork: Logging, _Un_\-imagined**

With Patchwork, developers can focus on building features while our product ensures that every log is context-rich, actionable, and secure. Developers can un-imagine logs, forever.

Patchwork works in the background, reviewing your existing codebase and stepping in during continuous integration to ensure that your new code meets your engineering standards.

Our product is flexible, but in our experience, good logs:

*   Are context-rich and actionable,
*   Explain what the failed method was attempting (the intent),
*   Provide the context in which it failed (the state of all relevant variables),
*   Use a structured format,
*   Handle sensitive information gracefully (never include tokens/passwords, label or exclude, e.g., personal information).

Our mission is to provide a few-click, automated journey to implement logging from code through to storage.

**Our Ask: Give an SRE a Hug**
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And then, help them out by giving them our email – [founders@getpatchwork.io](mailto:founders@patchwork.io). We’d love to connect with Senior SREs and VPs of Engineering – in our experience, they really get it.

Check out how we think at our [blog.](



**Our Story**
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The Patchwork founders ([Ben]( [Sam,]( and [Alex]( met while working at Palantir. That translates to _met while delivering product and outcomes to demanding customers, at massive data and infra scale, under tight timelines_. Late-night debugging sessions at Palantir taught us that good logs are priceless.


