Cloud-native observability startup Chronosphere Inc. announced today that it has acquired Calyptia Inc. for an undisclosed price.

Founded in 2020 by the creators of the Fluent Ecosystem, Calyptia offers an enterprise platform that helps organizations manage observability data at scale with immediate insights into the performance of their applications. The platform offers what the company calls “first-mile observability” that allows it to collect and analyze data at its source to provide more immediate insights into system performance.

Calyptia argues that traditional approaches to observability are flawed in an age where most enterprises are working with distributed information technology systems comprising hundreds of internet of things and edge applications deployed across public and private clouds.

The acquisition will see Chronompshere add a pipeline to its platform that enables the collection, transformation and routing of metric, log and trace data at large scale. The new client-side capabilities will be available in addition to Chronosphere’s server-side control plane, allowing teams to control costs, improve developer productivity and analyze log data in real time.

“With observability data growing by orders of magnitude, companies are ill-equipped to manage the costs and scale of this deluge, forcing their teams to make trade-offs,” said Chronospher co-founder and Chief Executive Martin Mao. “With the addition of Calyptia’s leading observability pipeline solution, we’re taking an important step to ensure that developers have the ultimate control over all their observability data from end to end — including log files to control cost and improve developer productivity.”

Coming into its acquisition, Calyptia had raised one round of venture capital funding — a round of $5 million in March 2022. Investors included Sierra Ventures Inc. and Carbide Ventures LLC.

The acquisition news comes days after Chronosphere announced the availability of a new product called Logs that embeds CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s Falcon LogScale within its cloud-native observability platform. Logs, powered by CrowdStrike, allows teams to deliver data ingestion at scale and conduct fast searches across petabytes of data.

As part of the Logs, powered by CrowdStrike, announcement, Chronosphere also said it had taken an investment from the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund. The amount of the investment was not disclosed.

Ian Smith, field chief technology officer at Chronosphere, spoke with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media Inc.’s live stream studio, in November about how Chronosphere aims to help companies harness an “explosion of data” from artificial intelligence and cloud technologies.

When it comes to observing the data from large language models and an increasingly complex architecture of cloud services, Smith noted in the interview that it’s not as simple as finding the right vendor.

“It’s a double-edged sword,” he said, “Observability strategy no longer can be just tool selection. And so, there’s a lot of choice out there and I don’t think there are some hard and fast rules, but I think you really have to look at it through the lens of how does my tool selection feed into my observability strategy?”

Image: Calyptia