Cloudflare, Inc. has announced its entry into the observability market through the acquisition of Baselime. The move aims to integrate Baselime’s cloud-native observability platform with Cloudflare’s developer tools, enhancing visibility and control for serverless applications. Serverless architectures offer scalable infrastructure without active management, but often at the cost of reduced observability. With the Baselime acquisition, Cloudflare seeks to tackle this challenge by offering developers comprehensive insight into application behavior, performance bottlenecks, and error isolation. Matthew Prince, Cloudflare’s co-founder and CEO, emphasized the importance of observability tools in providing developers with the necessary insights for building on their platform. The acquisition allows Cloudflare to offer new functionalities to developers, such as analyzing observability data across a multitude of fields, implementing OpenTelemetry-based tools for easier application instrumentation, extracting insights from observability data with advanced developer experience enhancements, and integrating an AI-powered debugging assistant. Boris Tane, Baselime’s founder and CEO, expressed excitement over the integration with Cloudflare’s platform, which is trusted by two million developers. Cloudflare’s continuity cloud empowers organizations with faster and more secure connectivity, simplifying work and accelerating business processes, which is bolstered by their extensive network and range of cloud-native products. Lastly, forward-looking statements within the press release underline Cloudflare’s intention to continue enhancing its product suite and underline the risks associated with such future plans as documented in SEC filings.
Information Technology, Software & Services,United States, Global
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