Palo Alto Networks has completed its acquisition of Chronosphere, marking a strategic move to address one of the most pressing challenges of the AI era: the lack of deep, real-time visibility into the vast data volumes that power modern digital businesses. As enterprises increasingly depend on AI to manage operations, secure infrastructure and fuel growth, the ability to observe, understand and act on data in real time has become mission-critical.

Chronosphere, recognised as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms, was designed specifically for cloud-native scale. Traditional monitoring tools often struggle in distributed, dynamic environments, but Chronosphere enables organisations to gain comprehensive visibility across applications, infrastructure and AI systems. Palo Alto Networks said the acquisition strengthens its ambition to help customers operate at the speed of AI, while maintaining tighter control over data costs and value.

The integration of Chronosphere’s observability platform with Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex® AgentiX™ is expected to unlock new levels of automation. By combining AI agents with deep observability, customers will be able to detect and resolve security and IT issues automatically, before they impact business performance or customer experience. The companies argue that AI-driven security without observability lacks context, while the combined platform provides insight across models, prompts, users and system performance, enabling a shift from reactive troubleshooting to autonomous remediation.

“Enterprises today are looking for fewer vendors, deeper partnerships, and platforms they can rely on for mission-critical security and operations. Chronosphere accelerates our vision to be the indispensable platform for securing and operating the cloud and AI. We believe that great security starts with deep visibility into all your data, and Chronosphere provides that foundation for our customers,” said Nikesh Arora, Chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks.

Chronosphere co-founder and CEO Martin Mao, who joins Palo Alto Networks as SVP and GM of Observability, said the combination expands the reach of the company’s technology. “Chronosphere was built to help the world's most complex digital organizations operate at scale with confidence. Joining Palo Alto Networks allows us to bring AI-era observability to a global audience. Together, we're delivering a new standard – where observability, security, and AI come together to give organizations control over their most valuable asset: data,” he said.

Chronosphere’s Telemetry Pipeline will continue to be offered as a standalone solution, targeting the growing ‘data tax’ associated with modern security operations. Acting as an intelligent control layer, it can filter low-value data to reduce volumes by 30% or more, while requiring significantly less infrastructure than legacy tools. Palo Alto Networks said this capability underpins its Cortex XSIAM® strategy, helping customers scale AI-driven security operations without proportionally increasing costs.