Palo Alto Networks To Acquire Embrace to Expand Observability with Real User Monitoring

Palo Alto Networks Acquires Console

September 1, 2026

Cybersecurity

Palo Alto Networks acquired Console, an AI-native platform for building agentic workflows across enterprise operations. The acquisition is intended to deepen Console’s agentic capabilities in Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex security platform to help teams investigate signals, prioritize work, and take action through AI-powered workflows.

Palo Alto Networks Acquires Chronosphere for $3.35 Billion

January 30, 2026

Cybersecurity

Palo Alto Networks agreed to acquire Chronosphere, an observability platform, for about $3.35 billion in cash and replacement equity awards (plus subject to adjustments), to advance AI-era observability and security. The acquisition integrates Chronosphere’s cloud-native telemetry with Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex AgentiX/AI-agent capabilities to enable real-time autonomous remediation. The deal was completed on January 29, 2026.

Embrace Acquires SpeedCurve to Bolster Web Performance and Observability

November 10, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

Embrace has acquired SpeedCurve to integrate deep web performance insights and synthetic monitoring into its user-focused observability platform. The deal expands Embrace's capabilities in web RUM and synthetic testing, giving customers unified visibility across web and mobile performance.

Palo Alto Networks Acquires Talon Cyber Security

December 28, 2023

Cybersecurity

Palo Alto Networks completed the acquisition of Talon Cyber Security to integrate Talon’s enterprise browser technology into its Prisma SASE offering. The deal extends Palo Alto’s SASE capabilities by protecting managed and unmanaged devices and will make Talon’s Enterprise Browser available to qualified SASE AI customers at no additional cost.

Embrace Software Inc Acquires Northwest Analytics (NWA)

December 13, 2023

Data & Analytics

Embrace Software Inc has acquired Northwest Analytics (NWA), a provider of manufacturing analytics and Industry 4.0 digital transformation solutions. The deal—Embrace Industrial Group's sixth acquisition—adds NWA's analytics suite and manufacturing domain expertise to Embrace's industrial software portfolio and is intended to accelerate product R&D, including machine learning and generative AI capabilities.

Splunk Acquires Plumbr and Rigor to Expand Observability Portfolio

October 20, 2020

Software

Splunk Inc. acquired Plumbr, an application performance monitoring (APM) company, and signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rigor, a digital experience/synthetic monitoring provider, to broaden its Observability Suite. The deals add real-user monitoring, deep instrumentation, synthetic monitoring and optimization capabilities to Splunk’s Data-to-Everything platform to provide end-to-end observability across cloud and on‑premises environments.