Observability and security vendor Dynatrace has been approved as a supplier to the New Zealand All-of-Government Marketplace. The Marketplace simplifi.
Cisco has a reputation of building the company through acquisitions, but it has tended to stay away from the really huge ones. With Splunk, it gets an observability platform that could fit nicely into its security business to help customers better understand security threats, while also helping parse oodles of log data to resolve other problems like helping understand system failures or troubleshoot myriad issues across a broad array of enterprise systems. Under the terms of the deal, Cisco is paying a hefty premium of $157 per share.
Cisco acquires Splunk for $28B, its largest deal to date, aiming to pivot towards software and boost cybersecurity. The move adds $4B in annual recurring revenue.
It is no secret that I am not a fan of logs; I’ve baited (rapala in Finnish) discussion in our work chat with things like:
If you’re writing log statements, you’re doing it wrong.
This is a pretty incendiary statement, and while there has been some good discussion after, I figured it was time to write down why I think logs are bad, why tracing should be used instead, and how we get from one to the other.