ServiceNow to acquire DevOps observability platform Lightstep
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ServiceNow is a workflow automation platform for optimizing productivity for information technology and operations, with the addition of LightStep, DevOps engineers will gain deep systematic observability capabilities to detect problems before they affect customers.
The concept of “observability” deals with gathering information from raw data drawn from logs generated by clients and servers and producing actionable insights.
“Today, observability primarily benefits the DevOps teams that build and operate mission-critical apps,” said Ben Sigelman, co-founder and chief executive at Lightstep. “We’ve always believed that the value of observability should extend across the entire enterprise.”
ServiceNow Strikes Deal To Buy Observability Tech Developer Lightstep
Lightspeed’s software is used by DevOps teams to analyze system-wide metrics, tracing data and logs in real time to understand the cause and effects of changes to application performance and reliability, accelerating cloud application development. By Rick Whiting May 10, 2021, 01:26 PM EDT
Digital workflow software vendor ServiceNow is acquiring Lightstep, a developer of system observability technology, in what ServiceNow says is one of its biggest acquisitions.
Monday ServiceNow announced an agreement to buy Lightstep but did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. ServiceNow expects to complete the acquisition by the end of the current quarter.
Circonus Contributes its Powerful, Patented Histogram Technology to the Open Source Community
Major contribution creates vendor-neutral industry standard for the interoperability, mergeability, and seamless analysis of histogram telemetry
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PHILADELPHIA, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Circonus, the monitoring and analytics platform built for the modern-day enterprise, today announced that it has released its powerful, patented histogram technology with open source licensing – creating a standard histogram format for the industry and solving the long-standing interoperability challenges caused by incompatible, vendor-proprietary formats. Circonus developed its innovative, mergeable, and highly-efficient histogram technology in 2011 and has both patents and pending patents on that technology.