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2023. Cisco to acquire IT Monitoring giant Splunk for $28B



In a twist that even the most befuddled beings across the galaxy might find intriguing, Cisco has decided it simply must have Splunk in its vast arsenal and is parting with a staggering $28 billion to make it so. This cosmic alignment allows Cisco, ever in pursuit of security mastery, to dive deep into Splunk's mysterious observability platform, a tool that will no doubt let Cisco peek into the intricate quantum soup of security threats. Now, they'll help the baffled inhabitants of this planet decipher log data and make sense of why, exactly, their systems have spontaneously collapsed into chaos and why half the universe seems to be missing data packets. Both boards have raised their thumbs in enthusiastic approval, though there remains the matter of regulatory approval — a hurdle about as predictable as the Vogon poetry circuit and just as widely dreaded.


2023. New Relic launches Grok, its AI observability assistant



Enterprises and their ilk are, rather inevitably, in the throes of folding large language models into the vast and bewildering array of services they offer. Somewhere in the midst of this organized confusion, New Relic has rather proudly unveiled its own shiny, clever contraption Grok, boldly declaring it to be the first generative AI assistant in the realm of observability. Grok, it seems, has been designed to do all sorts of helpful things for engineers—like setting up instrumentation, whipping up reports, and wrangling account management—all through the magic of natural language, which apparently means you can talk to it without resorting to arcane incantations or, heaven forbid, actual coding. The whole idea, of course, is to use this fantastically brainy model to make sense of the oceans of data sloshing around New Relic, a feat that is not only crucial for keeping services from keeling over but also for ensuring they don’t accidentally empty an enterprise’s coffers—a rather pressing concern these days, even if you don’t have a hyperintelligent AI to tell you so.

2022. New Relic enters the security market with its new vulnerability management service



New Relic, traditionally recognized for its observability platform, is entering the security market today with the introduction of a new vulnerability management service. Appropriately named New Relic Vulnerability Management, the service consolidates data from both its own native vulnerability detection system and third-party tools, providing security, DevOps, SecOps and SRE teams with a unified service for tracking vulnerabilities in their software stack. The company claims that one of its key differentiators is this new tool’s ability to integrate with external security tools. This feature is intended to help teams prioritize which security threats to address (since there are typically more risks than any team can manage), while also assisting them in determining which steps to take to mitigate those risks.


2022. New Relic launches its new infrastructure monitoring experience



In 2020, New Relic introduced its New Relic One platform, aiming to consolidate the various individual solutions the company had developed over the years into a single framework. Last year, New Relic expanded on this — and its NRDB data storage system — by adding enhanced network monitoring, a machine learning model performance tracking tool and error detection features, among others. Today, the company is completing one of the final components of this initiative with the general release of its new infrastructure monitoring solution. Designed to assist DevOps, SRE and ITOps teams in overseeing their infrastructure and swiftly addressing issues across public, private and hybrid cloud environments, this new tool is now accessible to New Relic users.


2021. ControlUp nabs $100M to monitor and improve desktop computing performance



ControlUp, which has developed technology for IT teams to monitor and enhance performance across their networks, has secured $100 million in a funding round that it will use to further invest in its tools and expand its customer base. The company’s solution revolves around deploying “agents” that operate in the background on a user’s computer, continuously monitoring how applications and the overall device are functioning. These agents are driven by AI, allowing them not only to detect when, for example, a broadband network is too slow but also to offer solutions through automated or manual technical recommendations for what a user or IT personnel can do remotely to resolve the specific problem.


2021. Cribl raises $200M to help enterprises do more with their data



Cribl, the company creating an “open ecosystem of data” for enterprises that employs unified data pipelines, known as “observability pipelines,” to process and direct any type of data flowing through a corporate IT system, has secured a $200 million Series C funding round. Cribl users can then select their preferred analytics tools and storage destinations, such as Splunk, Datadog and Exabeam, without becoming reliant on a single vendor. Cribl also allows users to choose how they want to store their data, unlike competitors who often restrict companies to using only their products. Instead, customers can acquire the best products from various categories and these will all integrate through Cribl.


2021. CrowdStrike acquires logging startup Humio for $400M



In a move that could only be described as quintessentially 21st-century, CrowdStrike—the galactic hitchhiker of the cloud-native cybersecurity universe—has decided to scoop up Humio, a scrappy U.K. startup specializing in log analysis and observability, for the intergalactic equivalent of $400 million (mostly cash, because credits apparently aren’t legal tender yet). Founded in London in 2016, Humio has been charming its way into the data cosmos by natively gobbling up unstructured and semi-structured data like a Vogon poet consumes metaphors. With more than $30 million in funding from Earthly backers like Accel and Dell, and an impressive client roster including Microsoft and Bloomberg, Humio has proven it knows how to make sense of the chaos—whether it's logs or life itself.


2021. SentinelOne to acquire high-speed logging startup Scalyr for $155M



SentinelOne, a late-stage security startup that assists clients in interpreting security data using AI and machine learning, has acquired high-speed logging startup Scalyr for $155M. SentinelOne sifts through vast amounts of data to help clients assess their security stance and having a tool that allows engineers to quickly analyze the data and identify the root cause of issues will be highly beneficial for them. The company views Scalyr as a product to integrate into its platform, while also maintaining it as an independent solution.


2021. Employee IT Experience monitoring provider Nexthink nabs $180M



Nexthink, a late-stage startup that aims to assist IT in better serving its internal customers, announced a $180 million Series D. Nexthink approaches the IT monitoring issue from a completely different angle. It provides the IT department with a real-time insight into how employees are interacting with IT services. This might involve surveying the user base in the same manner that HR and marketing feedback tools enable businesses to gauge the sentiment of employees or customers. By collecting this type of information, it helps IT comprehend how employees are engaging with the company’s technology solutions. This platform is targeted at larger enterprises with a minimum of 5,000 staff members.


2021. Chronosphere nabs $43M to expand cloud native monitoring tool



Chronosphere, the scalable cloud-native monitoring solution, has secured $43.4 million in Series B funding and announced that their service is now generally accessible. The startup founders developed the open-source M3 monitoring project in 2019 and then launched Chronosphere, built on that project. M3 itself is a rather intricate technology to operate. It addresses a complex issue on a large scale and operating it requires a significant investment to manage at scale, so the initial focus is on handling that management. Chronosphere spent much of the past year refining the product and collaborating with beta clients, noting that they definitely gained advantages from constructing the commercial service atop the open-source project.