Apple Acquires Open-Source Observability Platform Developer SigScalr

Apple acquired certain assets of SigScalr and hired certain SigScalr employees, according to a list of acquisitions maintained by the European Commission.

The list said that “SigScalr develops a data log management and observability tool” and that Apple notified the commission of the acquisition on March 12.

The commission posted the details on its website Monday (July 13), according to 9to5Mac, which flagged the news of the acquisition in a Monday report.

SigScalr offers the open-source observability platform SigLens, which helps developers collect, search and analyze logs, metrics and traces generated by apps and infrastructure, according to the report.

The company’s website is now offline, and the platform’s GitHub repository was made read-only, according to the report.

In an archival notice posted in the repository, SigScalr said: “As we focus on something new, the repository will remain available in read-only mode for anyone who finds it useful. If you’d like to fork it, build on it, or take it in a new direction, we wholeheartedly encourage that. We are also changing the license to a more permissive Apache 2.0 license.”

MacRumors said in a Monday report on the acquisition that SigLens “was known for being a cost-effective and fast solution compared to many competing platforms.”

Apple Insider reported Monday that Apple’s acquisition of SigScalr will give it “a tool to monitor and debug the processes of large numbers of interrelated applications.”

SigLens Founder and CEO Kunal Nawale said in his LinkedIn profile: “By using our self-hosted or our SaaS, companies save 90% on their observability bills. We provide lightning-fast query response times on any volume of data thereby reducing your debugging time during production issues.”

SigScalr announced in a February 2024 press release that it emerged from stealth and closed a $1.76 million pre-seed round that was led by Scribble Ventures with co-investments from WestWave Capital and Forward Slash Capital.

PYMNTS reported in November that Palo Alto Networks announced plans to acquire observability platform Chronosphere for $3.35 billion.

Like other observability platforms, Chronosphere collects detailed data from applications and infrastructure to help engineers understand why problems occur and where they originate, according to the report.

Palo Alto Networks’ acquisition of the company closed in January, according to a Jan. 29 press release.