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Sawmills

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

ToolObservability PipelinesCloud, Self-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 Cyber Vendor Guide 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

Things to check

  • 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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Key facts

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.
Model
Usage-based (ingest volume; annual commitment)
Founded
2024
Cloud
Yes
Self-hosted
Yes
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