Cloud monitoring and safety platform Datadog on Wednesday mentioned it has acquired Metaplane, an AI-powered knowledge observability startup.
Monetary phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed.
In a press launch, Datadog mentioned that the deal “accelerates” its growth into knowledge observability, constructing on the launch of associated merchandise. Metaplane will proceed supporting its present and new prospects by means of a rebranded “Metaplane by Datadog” providing.
“Observability is not only for builders and IT groups; it’s now a necessary a part of knowledge groups’ day-to-day obligations as they handle more and more advanced and business-critical workflows,” Datadog VP Michael Whetten mentioned in a press release. “This complexity will turn out to be much more pronounced as extra companies deploy AI purposes. By unifying observability throughout purposes and knowledge, Datadog will assist organizations construct dependable AI methods.”
MIT graduate Kevin Hu, former HubSpot engineer Peter Casinelli, and ex-Appcues developer Guru Mahendran based Metaplane in 2020. They initially launched the corporate as a “buyer success” product that analyzed corporations’ knowledge to forestall churn, however after going by means of Y Combinator — and with the pandemic hitting — Metaplane pivoted however continued to construct knowledge analytics-focused instruments.
Metaplane displays knowledge utilizing anomaly detection AI fashions skilled totally on historic metadata. It makes an attempt to ascertain lineages in an information warehouse — the methods used for reporting and knowledge evaluation — and notifies stakeholders of points through their instrument of alternative (e.g. Slack, PagerDuty, and so forth). From these instruments, customers can mark any alert as an anticipated change or in any other case, and Metaplane’s system will study over time.
Metaplane had till now raised $22.2 million in whole from buyers together with Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Flybridge Capital Companions, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, and HubSpot CTO Dharmesh Shah. As of January 2023, the Boston-based startup had round 10 staff.
“Our mission at Metaplane is to assist corporations guarantee belief within the knowledge that powers their enterprise,” Hu mentioned in a press release. “Becoming a member of forces with Datadog allows us to deliver knowledge observability to tens of hundreds extra corporations, whereas bringing knowledge groups and software program groups nearer collectively.”
Metaplane is Datadog’s second acquisition this yr. In January, the corporate acquired Quickwit, an open supply, cloud-native search engine for logs.
It is sensible for Datadog to broaden its footprint in knowledge observability, as this can be a massive and wholesome market — one that would turn out to be a major supply of enterprise for Datadog down the road. The corporate recently reported better-than-expected net profit, however its full-year 2025 income forecast fell beneath what analysts had anticipated.
According to Grand View Research, the marketplace for knowledge observability instruments was value $2.14 billion in 2023 and will develop at a 12.2% compound annual progress price between 2024 and 2030. In fact, there’s stiff competitors. Large gamers embrace Monte Carlo, Cribl, Manta, Observe, Higher Stack, Coralogix and Unravel Information.
Datadog’s problem can be sufficiently differentiating its knowledge observability merchandise, which it’s making an attempt to do each by means of acquisitions in addition to in-house tasks akin to data jobs and data streams monitoring.