Cloudflare, Inc, the leading connectivity cloud company, announced its entry into the observation market with the acquisition of Baselime , the cloud-native observation platform. By integrating Baselime’s technology with the developer platform, Cloudflare will be uniquely positioned to bring together deep knowledge of serverless platforms and developer experience to solve observability challenges for serverless apps. Today, entire applications are built on serverless architectures, from computing to databases, storage, queues, and more. Nevertheless, observability is often considered one of the weaknesses of serverless architectures. You trade visibility into application behavior for a scalable infrastructure that doesn’t need to be managed. Building and debugging production applications requires the ability to understand trends and patterns, identify performance bottlenecks, and isolate errors to ensure continued reliability, scalability, and security. Access to this transparency, preferably within a platform, is a crucial factor for developers when choosing a platform to build on.
“ Two million developers building on Cloudflare trust us to help them scale their applications globally, but they still struggle to understand the behavior of their cloud applications,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare . “ We believe it is critical for the leading developer platform to have the best observation tools integrated. Baselime has raised the standard for serverless observability, and we can further unlock these insights for every developer building on our platform.”
With this acquisition, Cloudflare enters the observability market to enable developers to deploy services in production. This allows teams to identify when a release has gone wrong and needs to be reverted, investigate errors and regressions, optimize performance, and more. Developers will also benefit from the ability to optimize the cost of their serverless applications by understanding the rate of requests made and analyzing the sources of latency.
With this acquisition, Baselime will be integrated into Cloudflare’s developer platform, helping With this acquisition, Baselime will be integrated into Cloudflare’s developer platform, helping developers push the boundaries of modern observability:
- to analyze your observation data across thousands of possible fields and values to uncover any errors, queries, or performance issues for specific users or for your entire applications.
- to enable OpenTelemetry -based tools and standards and facilitate integration with a variety of application frameworks and cloud providers. These tools and standards enable developers to easily and consistently provide their applications with rich observational data. This allows problems to be resolved quickly, whether they affect a single user, a subset of users, or the entire application.
- to gain insights from your observation data thanks to a range of developer enhancements, including real-time bug tracking based on logs and traces, actionable alerts, trace charts and timelines, a responsive query engine, and an AI debugging assistant.
“ Cloudflare is building the next frontier of cloud computing with its Connectivity Cloud. Our core mission has always been to simplify and innovate observability for the future of the cloud, and Cloudflare’s ecosystem provides the ideal foundation to achieve this goal,” said Boris Tane, Founder and CEO of Baselime. “ With Cloudflare, we are able to deeply integrate with a platform that two million developers trust, enabling them to quickly build, ship and debug applications. I’m incredibly excited about the potential of what we can build together and the impact it will have on developers around the world.”
SOURCE: Businesswire