Cribl, the San Francisco-based AI platform for telemetry, has acquired Tero, a developer of intelligence tools for observability data, as it looks to expand its capabilities across monitoring and AI-native observability.

Tero’s three co-founders, chief executive Ben Johnson, CTO Adam Cohen and COO Nihar Singhal, will join Cribl alongside their engineering team. Johnson will take on the role of VP of observability, helping lead the company’s product strategy in the sector.

Johnson previously co-founded Timber, the company behind the open source Vector data pipeline, which was acquired by Datadog in 2021. His experience building telemetry infrastructure is expected to support Cribl’s push to develop a broader observability offering.

Tero’s technology helps organisations assess the value of their telemetry data, identifying information that adds little to their observability operations. It is designed to show engineering teams where low-value data is accumulating across their tools and help them address the issue without changing their existing workflows.

At Cribl, the team will focus on four areas: host monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), federated observability and AI-native observability. The capabilities will be developed on Cribl’s existing open platform, which allows customers to collect, route and refine telemetry data.

The acquisition is Cribl’s third in four months, following its purchase of CardinalOps in July and the addition of Radiant Security’s AI security operations centre (SOC) technology in August.

Cribl said Tero brings expertise in the observability market, established relationships with customers and partners, and engineering experience that will help accelerate product development. The latest deal also supports its wider strategy of bringing observability and security products together on a shared telemetry platform.

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