Elastic announced in a July 22 blog post that it agreed to acquire Deductive AI.
The acquisition will add Deductive AI’s artificial intelligence-powered investigation platform, which helps engineering teams identify and resolve production issues, to Elastic’s agentic observability solution, Elastic Observability, according to the Monday press release.
This combination will bring more AI-powered investigation and automation to Elastic Observability, the release said. It aims to reduce the amount of time and manual processes engineers devote to understanding what happened, why it happened and what to do next.
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“Engineering teams today are drowning in telemetry but starved for answers,” Elastic CEO Ash Kulkarni said in the release. “We have been building AI into Elastic Observability to move teams from detection to resolution faster.”
Deductive AI customers will continue to receive support while Elastic develops integration plans and shares additional product roadmap details over the coming months, according to the release.
“We’ve always believed that engineering teams deserve better than hours spent manually tracing the root cause of every incident,” Rakesh Kothari, former CEO and co-founder of Deductive AI, said in the release. “Joining Elastic lets us bring that conviction to a much larger audience and dramatically accelerate the development of AI-powered investigation capabilities.”
It was reported in July that Apple acquired certain assets of SigScalr, developer of a data log management and observability tool, and hired certain SigScalr employees. SigScalr offers the open-source observability platform SigLens, which helps developers collect, search and analyze logs, metrics and traces generated by apps and infrastructure.
In January, Snowflake said it was acquiring Observe and would integrate the company’s observability platform with Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud. Snowflake said the integration would enable enterprises to resolve production issues up to 10 times faster than they can with reactive monitoring.
In November, Palo Alto Networks announced plans to acquire Chronosphere, an observability platform designed to track system performance, for $3.35 billion.
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