Palo Alto Networks announced that it has completed its acquisition of Chronosphere, positioning the deal as a response to a central operational challenge in the AI era: organizations are generating and depending on massive volumes of real-time data, but often lack the ability to both see what is happening across cloud native environments and secure it effectively.
The company framed the transaction around the growing reliance on AI to run digital operations, protect assets, and drive growth, arguing that trusted, high-quality, real-time data is now foundational. Chronosphere, described as purpose-built for cloud-scale observability and recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, is expected to expand Palo Alto Networks’ ability to provide deep visibility across applications, infrastructure, and AI systems while also emphasizing control over data cost and value.
Palo Alto Networks said it plans to integrate Chronosphere’s cloud-native observability platform with Cortex AgentiX, enabling AI agents to automatically identify and remediate security and IT issues before they affect customers or business performance.
The company’s messaging centered on the idea that security outcomes degrade without observability context, and that the combined platform can provide the operational and security telemetry needed to support more autonomous remediation, including context across models, prompts, users, and performance.
Chronosphere’s Telemetry Pipeline will remain available as a standalone product. Palo Alto Networks positioned the pipeline as an intelligent control layer intended to reduce the “data tax” associated with modern security operations by filtering low-value noise. The company cited performance claims that the pipeline can reduce data volumes by 30% or more and require 20x less infrastructure than legacy alternatives, and linked that capability to its Cortex XSIAM strategy by emphasizing an aim to scale security posture without scaling spending as customers move toward autonomous, AI-driven operations.
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“Enterprises today are looking for fewer vendors, deeper partnerships, and platforms they can rely on for mission-critical security and operations. Chronosphere accelerates our vision to be the indispensable platform for securing and operating the cloud and AI. We believe that great security starts with deep visibility into all your data, and Chronosphere provides that foundation for our customers.”
Nikesh Arora, Chairman and CEO, Palo Alto Networks
“Chronosphere was built to help the world’s most complex digital organizations operate at scale with confidence. Joining Palo Alto Networks allows us to bring AI-era observability to a global audience. Together, we’re delivering a new standard — where observability, security, and AI come together to give organizations control over their most valuable asset: data.”
Martin Mao, Co-founder and CEO, Chronosphere; SVP, GM Observability, Palo Alto Networks
