- Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) — a provider of the Data-to-Everything Platform announced recently it has signed a definitive agreement to buy Flowmill. These are the details about the deal.
Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) — a provider of the Data-to-Everything Platform announced recently it has signed a definitive agreement to buy Flowmill. Flowmill is a Palo-Alto based cloud network observability company with expertise in network performance monitoring (NPM). This acquisition is expected to close in Splunk’s fourth quarter, subject to customary closing conditions.
Through this acquisition, Splunk will continue to deliver on its vision to offer the world’s most comprehensive Observability Suite. And with Flowmill, Splunk further expands its existing observability capabilities, giving customers the ability to ingest, analyze, and take action on additional cloud network and infrastructure data to quickly resolve network-related issues, optimize network performance and reduce network costs.
eBPF is a valuable and underutilized data source that is encountered in all cloud-native use cases and much easier to access than traditional networking data. eBPF is a critical component for full-stack observability. Plus it enables broad visibility into interactions between applications, networks and other infrastructure elements. In order to utilize eBPF, systems must be equipped to efficiently collect, integrate, and store high data volumes produced by a large distribution system.
And Flowmill will complement Splunk’s recent acquisitions of Plumbr and Rigor, giving customers the ability to address every application performance monitoring (APM), digital enterprise monitoring (DEM) and NPM need across all types of applications and infrastructures.
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“Observability technology is rapidly increasing in both sophistication and ability to help organizations revolutionize how they monitor their infrastructure and applications. Flowmill’s innovative NPM solution provides real-time observability into network behavior and performance of distributed cloud applications, leveraging extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technologies. We’re excited to bring Flowmill’s visionary NPM technology into our Observability Suite as Splunk continues to deliver best-in-class observability capabilities to our customers.”
— Tim Tully, chief technology officer, Splunk
“Flowmill’s approach to building systems that support full-fidelity, real-time, high-cardinality ingestions and analysis aligns well with Splunk’s vision for observability. We’re thrilled to join Splunk and bring eBPF, next-generation NPM to the Splunk Observability Suite.”
— Jonathan Perry, founder and CEO, Flowmill
