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Read More ServiceNow is buying application monitoring and observability company Lightstep in a move to combine workflow automation for IT and AIOps with software development. Lightstep plays in a crowded observability and application monitoring market that includes Dynatrace, BMC, Datadog, Sumo Logic, Splunk's SignalFx, New Relic and a host of others. ServiceNow isn't worried about Lightstep's competition. The company is aiming to bolster DevOps engineers' ability to build, deploy, run and monitor cloud-native apps. CJ Desai, chief product officer for ServiceNow, told ZDNet the goal is to "transform software development like we transformed IT." Desai said the appeal of Lightstep is that it offers visibility into the full software stack without bouncing between platforms. ServiceNow will combine its AIOps and IT workflow automation tools to "seamlessly connect insight with action across all the tools, people, and processes involved in delivering digital customer experiences," said Desai. "With this acquisition, observability is no longer restricted to just DevOps." Here's a look at Lightstep's architecture. lightstep-flow.pnglightstep-flow.png For ServiceNow, Lightstep will also bring engineering talent. Lightstep's team helped to create the open source OpenTelemetry project and previously worked on observability technology at Google, developing Dapper, Google's distributed tracing system, and Monarch, the search giant's global metrics and monitoring platform. Lightstep, which has raised $70 million in venture funding to date, was co-founded in 2015 by CEO Ben Sigelman, COO Ben Cronin, and Chief Architect Daniel Spoonhower. The plan for ServiceNow is to extend its digital enterprise fabric across its portfolio of IT products (ITBM, ITOM, DevOps, SecOps, and ITSM) with Lightstep. In addition, Lightstep's technology will bring observability to a wider range of customers. Recent IT product moves by ServiceNow include: * ServiceNow's Quebec release of Now Platform includes low-code, native AI tools * ServiceNow IT Operations Management adds Oracle Cloud integrations * ServiceNow launches unified agent platform, aims to meld diagnostics with incident automation * ServiceNow acquires artificial intelligence startup Element AI * ServiceNow, IBM to integrate Watson AIOps, IT service management Lightstep has a free community edition of its platform, a pay-as-you-go service for teams and annual subscriptions and volume discounts for enterprises. What is low-code and no-code? A guide to development platforms Here's how Lightstep and ServiceNow will come together: * Lightstep's tools will be integrated into ServiceNow's IT workflow portfolio. * Observability will enable ServiceNow to coordinate technical and team response with real-time insights on actions to take. * ServiceNow is going to extend Lightstep's technology to other parts of the enterprise. Lightstep CEO Sigelman said "we've always believed that the value of observability should extend across the entire enterprise." * Lightstep's technology is used by GitHub, Twilio, Spotify and Grubhub, but ServiceNow will be able to cross-sell the company's wares to broader enterprises. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter. It's safe to say observability is a hot space in technology. Recent headlines include: * New Relic open sources Pixie, its Kubernetes-native in-cluster observability platform * Datadog Q4 results and outlook top expectations, acquires Timber Tech and Sqreen for observability, security * IBM buys Turbonomic to build out AIOps tools * Cisco acquires software startup Dashbase to bolster observability in AppDynamics * Splunk to acquire cloud network observability provider Flowmill * New Relic snaps up Kubernetes observability solutions provider Pixie Labs * Observability, Stage 3: Distributed tracing as a service by logz.io * Splunk debuts Observability Suite, which integrates SignalFx, Omnition technology into one platform Related Topics: Enterprise Software Digital Transformation Data Centers CXO Innovation Storage * * * * * * * * Larry Dignan By Larry Dignan for Between the Lines | May 10, 2021 -- 14:51 GMT (07:51 PDT) | Topic: Cloud Show Comments LOG IN TO COMMENT * My Profile * Log Out | Community Guidelines Join Discussion Add Your Comment Add Your Comment More from Larry Dignan * [][3d-systems-focus] 3D Printing 3D Systems Q1 strong due to healthcare demand for 3D printing * [][ringcentral-partners-q1] Collaboration RingCentral, Verizon Business form partnership for UCaaS * [][colonial-pipeline-syste] Security Colonial Pipeline cyberattack shuts down pipeline that supplies 45% of East Coast's fuel * [][pton-q3-2021] Digital Health and Wellness Peloton will add digital pass codes to treadmills, take Q4 hit on recall, added safety features Please review our terms of service to complete your newsletter subscription. 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