CARBON · v2.0.0 · DEPLOYED12 MAY 2026 · MUNICH

[ CARBON ]

carbon --launch v2.0

Built in theterminal.

A developer-first observability platform for teams that ship at the speed of git push.

m. kovaleva · founding pm · build 240512 v2.0.0 · prod

CARBONagenda.md02 / 30

cat agenda.md

Five sections, one demo.

[ 01 ] /product · what we built Observability primitives, end-to-end traces, native SDKs. ~12 min

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SECTION 01CARBON03 / 30

/01 · WHAT WE BUILT

The product.

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section 01 · 1.1headline metric04 / 30

P95 LATENCY · POST-LAUNCH

12ms

A 6× improvement over last quarter.

Median traces resolve under 4ms; p99 is 38ms. Detail in §1.3, broken down by region.

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section 01 · 1.2kpi dashboard05 / 30

KPI · ROLLING 30 DAYS

Four numbers, every standup.

P95 LATENCY 12ms ↓ 83% vs last quarter

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section 01 · 1.3a quote06 / 30

echo "$INSIGHT"

"The fastest team isn't the one shipping fastest. It's the one with the shortest distance between a bug and a fix."

— PETRA ADELMANN

CTO · KARST SYSTEMS · MARCH 2026

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section 01 · 1.4before · after07 / 30

diff before.md after.md

Two operating models, ten releases apart.

— BEFORE · v1.x

Polling every 30s.

Dashboards lagged the truth by 30 seconds. Incident response started after the customer told you.

+ AFTER · v2.0

Streaming < 100ms.

Dashboards now lead the truth by 100ms. Mean time to detect: 6 seconds, p99.

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section 01 · 1.5three pillars08 / 30

PRODUCT · THREE PILLARS

What we built, in order.

[ 01 ] Streaming traces. End-to-end traces, sub-second. Native SDKs for Go, Rust, TS, Python.

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section 01 · 1.6checklist09 / 30

LAUNCH CHECKLIST

Five things, every Monday.

Force written answers, not Slack threads.

[✓] What did we learn that changed our minds? Force a written answer, not a verbal one.

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SECTION 02CARBON10 / 30

/02 · HOW IT WORKS

The architecture.

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section 02 · 2.1case · northwind11 / 30

CASE 01 · NORTHWIND

From 30-minute MTTR to 6 seconds.

Northwind moved their 80-engineer logistics platform to Carbon in eight weeks. Median incident detect time dropped from 30 minutes to 6 seconds.

image · 4 : 5

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section 02 · 2.2case · lark12 / 30

image · 4 : 5

CASE 02 · LARK & FELLER

A four-person team, ten million events per day.

Lark & Feller runs the entire platform with four engineers. Carbon handles the observability so they can stay that small.

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section 02 · 2.3release history13 / 30

RELEASE HISTORY · v0.1 → v2.0

Eight releases, two years.

v0.1.0 First commit · Go SDK only Three users, all on a shared Discord. Latency > 1s.

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section 02 · 2.4fig 01 · bar14 / 30

FIG 01 · P95 LATENCY (ms)

P95 latency drops 83% in v2.0.

SOURCE · PROD TELEMETRY · ROLLING 7-DAY

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section 02 · 2.5fig 02 · line15 / 30

FIG 02 · EVENTS / DAY

Throughput crosses 10M events/day in Q1 2026.

SOURCE · PROD METRICS · DAILY ROLLUP

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section 02 · 2.6pipeline16 / 30

PIPELINE · INGEST → ACT

Four stages, end-to-end.

[ 01 ] ingest Events stream in via native SDK or HTTP endpoint.
[ 02 ] enrich Stream processor adds trace-id, user, geo, service.
[ 03 ] store Columnar store, 90d retention, sub-second query.
[ 04 ] act Alerts, dashboards, paged on-call. p95 < 12ms.

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section 02 · 2.7table 01 · benchmarks17 / 30

TABLE 01 · BENCHMARKS

Six benchmarks, vs. the field.

Stack	Version	p50	p95	p99	$ / GB
Carbon	v2.0	4ms	12ms	38ms	$0.04

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SECTION 03CARBON18 / 30

/03 · WHO USES IT

The customers.

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image · full-bleed

FROM THE FIELD · NORTHWIND OPS ROOM

Six engineers, ten million events per day, one Carbon dashboard.

photograph · n. mori · 2025

section 03 · 3.1reviews20 / 30

FROM CUSTOMERS · UNPROMPTED

What our customers said, on the record.

"
Carbon is the first observability tool that didn't make us hire a person to look after it. It just runs.

Hannah Reuter CTO · NORTHWIND

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section 03 · 3.2founder21 / 30

portrait · 1 : 1

We built the observability tool we wanted at our last company — and then never had time to build there.

— Roland Lansing FOUNDER · CARBON · ex-CTO @ KARST

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section 03 · 3.3regions22 / 30

REGIONS · CUSTOMERS

Four regions, twenty-three teams.

All on EU-hosted infrastructure. SOC2 type II, GDPR-resident by default.

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section 03 · 3.4team23 / 30

THE TEAM · SIX PEOPLE

Six people. Distributed. Mostly remote.

3 : 4
Marit Kovaleva FOUNDING PM

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section 03 · 3.5integrations24 / 30

INTEGRATIONS · TEN

Works with the rest of your stack, day one.

datadog

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section 03 · 3.6pricing25 / 30

PRICING · THREE TIERS

Three plans. Usage-based. No seats.

HOBBY $0 1M events / mo
For the side project, the homelab, the weekend hack. No credit card, 7-day retention.

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SECTION 04CARBON26 / 30

/04 · WHAT'S NEXT

Roadmap & ask.

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section 04 · 4.1faq27 / 30

A FEW LAST QUESTIONS

What investors keep asking us.

Q · 01 Why are you doing this on-prem? Because our customers' data shouldn't leave their VPC. We sell software, not pipelines.

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section 04 · 4.2roadmap28 / 30

ROADMAP · NEXT FOUR QUARTERS

Four bets for the year ahead.

Q1 '26 v2.1 · per-event sampling, customer-managed keys.

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section 04 · 4.3cta29 / 30

carbon --invite founder@you.com

Ship faster.Sleep better.

A 30-day proof of value. We install Carbon in your VPC; you decide if you keep it.

hello@carbon.dev carbon.dev/get-started github.com/carbon-dev

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COLOPHON · TEAM

Thank you.

A small team of patient engineers, shipping on schedule, with one coffee break.

PRODUCT Marit Kovaleva Roland Lansing Petra Adelmann