Sawmills

AI telemetry pipeline that filters and optimises logs, metrics and traces pre-ingestion to cut observability cost.

ToolSecurity Data PipelineCloudSelf-hosted

Pricing: Usage-based on ingest volume with an annual commitment. Public pricing lists from $2,500/month (2026) with a free trial; verify current pricing with the vendor.

Reviewed by the CyberSecTool editorial team against the public sources cited below · Last reviewed June 2026 · How we review listings

What is Sawmills?

Sawmills is an AI-driven (agentic) telemetry pipeline that sits upstream of your observability backend and processes logs, metrics and traces in real time before they are ingested. It filters, transforms and improves the quality of telemetry pre-ingestion to cut observability spend, and is built on the OpenTelemetry Collector so it works alongside tools like Datadog and Splunk rather than replacing them.

Best for: Teams on Datadog, Splunk or similar that want to cut observability cost by filtering and optimising telemetry before ingestion
Pros
  • ✓ AI-automated optimisation reduces manual pipeline configuration
  • ✓ Built on OpenTelemetry, so it is vendor-neutral and reduces lock-in
  • ✓ Works alongside existing tools (Datadog, Splunk) without replacing the backend
  • ✓ Built-in PII redaction and governance guardrails
Considerations
  • • Early-stage (exited stealth 2025), so limited track record and roadmap maturity
  • • No independent third-party reviews yet, so cost-saving claims are vendor-stated
  • • No publicly disclosed security certifications (SOC 2 / ISO 27001) as of 2026
  • • Annual commitment from $2,500/month may not suit very small teams

Reported in public reviews and vendor documentation. See sources below.

Key Features

→Pre-ingestion filtering and optimisation of logs, metrics and traces in real time
→Agentic AI operator that analyses telemetry within team-defined guardrails
→Data-quality transformation: detection, correction, enrichment and PII redaction
→Reliability safeguards for high-cardinality metrics and ingestion spikes
→No-code pipeline builder (routing, filtering, transformation, sampling, aggregation)
→Built on the OpenTelemetry Collector and OTLP for vendor neutrality
→Integrations with Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, Prometheus, Elastic and Amazon S3
→Self-service in Slack and Microsoft Teams with savings reporting

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Sources & references

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Sawmills — official websitePrimary source
Sawmills - About
Company site
Sawmills emerges from stealth
VentureBeat
Sawmills raises $10M
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Quick Info
PricingUsage-based on ingest volume with an annual commitment. Public pricing lists from $2,500/month (2026) with a free trial; verify current pricing with the vendor.
ModelUsage-based (ingest volume; annual commitment)
Founded2024
CloudYes
Self-HostedYes
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Last updated: Jun 22, 2026