Splunk Acquires Plumbr and Rigor to Expand Observability Portfolio
October 20, 2020
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.
- Buyers
- Splunk Inc.
- Targets
- Plumbr, Rigor
- Industry
- Software
- Location
- Harju County, Estonia
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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