Half a year after emerging from stealth with $7 million in investors’ money and a promise to simplify how data centers are monitored, Arkin Inc. is finally launching its service to take on the numerous existing alternatives that its founders have deemed too complicated. The startup’s answer? Bringing the entire network under a single pane of glass.

That includes both virtualized and traditional physical systems as well as the traffic flowing throughout the environment, which administrators can track in real-time through its console. It’s the same value proposition as that offered by DataDog Inc., another recently funded monitoring provider that boasts the advantage of supporting cloud services too, but with a few twists.

For starters, Arkin tries to turn its narrow focus on in-house infrastructure to its advantage with an on-premise edition currently not matched by its rival that allows the monitoring to take place entirely behind the firewall. That’s appealing to risk-averse organizations.

The Arkin Visibility Platform also layers a search function on top of that layer that’s described as offering “Google-like” simplicity. While that’s not particularly groundbreaking from a technical standpoint, the ability to quickly find the source of issues underlies the whole purpose of implementing a monitoring system, which makes the feature a major advantage over the competition.

To round out the pitch, Arkin says that there’s built-in communications functionality to help administrators collaborate on insights gained through its platform, which also contributes to speeding up troubleshooting. The result is significantly reduced downtime.

Despite the abundance of competitors offering similar promises with their own solutions, Arkin’s investors are confident enough that its spin on the formula will stand out to have added another $15 in funding million to the pile on occasion of the launch. Like last time, the round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with contributions from unnamed strategic investors and NetScaler founder B.V. Jagadeesh.

Arkin will spend the new funds on hiring more developers to help improve its platform and step up customer acquisition efforts. The startup claims that it’s already seeing interest from users that helped with beta testing in the run-up to the launch.

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