Silicon Valley tech giant ServiceNow has announced plans to acquire Era Software, a Seattle startup that helps developers manage and analyze large amounts of observability data across cloud-native workloads.
ServiceNow, an $81 billion company that offers digital workflow software products, said the deal will provide customers with “large-scale, integrated observability solutions” and builds on last year’s acquisition of cloud-native trust platform Lightstep. said to be based on
“Successful digital transformation is tied to integrated observability, and log management is a key component of that. With the acquisition of Era Software, we are leveraging the scale and breadth of ServiceNow to bring log data to modern observability. ,” ServiceNow wrote in a blog post.
Era’s technology will be incorporated into Lightstep’s products, according to a spokesperson.
In 2019, Era joined Todd Persen, CEO, co-founder and former CTO of InfluxData, and CTO, co-maintainer of Google’s FlatBuffers low-latency storage framework in Rust and co-creator of the Time Series Benchmarking Suite. Founded by Robert Winslow.
Formerly known as EraDB, the company last year raised $15.2 million in a Series A round led by Playground Global. Other backers include Foundation Capital, Array Ventures, Global Founders Capital and angel investors. Era has 40-50 employees, most of whom will join ServiceNow.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Other recent ServiceNow acquisitions include Hitch Works, Gekkobrain, Mapwize, and DotWalk.
