# Chronosphere

> Chronosphere provides enterprise observability software and a standalone telemetry pipeline for teams running complex cloud applications. Its data controls help engineers reduce telemetry waste and investigate service failures. Founded by former Uber engineers Martin Mao and Rob Skillington in 2019, it became part of Palo Alto Networks in January 2026.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Martin Mao (Co-founder and CEO; became Palo Alto Networks SVP, GM Observability at acquisition close), Rob Skillington (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** Observability Platform, Control Plane, Chronosphere Lens, Differential Diagnosis (DDx), Chronosphere SLOs
- **Notable:** Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms in 2024, 2025 and 2026, according to Chronosphere announcements., DoorDash reported a framework of 14,000 SLOs using Chronosphere in September 2024., Company-published January 2025 results report Snap cut data volumes by more than 50% and on-call pages by 90%.

## Products & services

- **Observability Platform** — Managed enterprise platform for metrics, logs, traces, events, alerting and service health.
- **Control Plane** — Analyze telemetry utility and consumption, assign quotas, aggregate metrics and control log and trace volumes.
- **Chronosphere Lens** — Service discovery and contextual service views for incident investigation.
- **Differential Diagnosis (DDx)** — Queryless comparison and correlation tools for metrics and traces.
- **Chronosphere SLOs** — Define and monitor service level objectives for distributed applications.
- **Telemetry Pipeline** — Fluent Bit-based collection, transformation, filtering and routing; available independently of the platform.
- **AI-Guided Troubleshooting** — Suggestions, Investigation Notebooks and natural language assistance supported by a Temporal Knowledge Graph; announced in limited availability in November 2025.
- **MCP Server** — Connect observability data to internal AI workflows; announced generally available in November 2025.

## Achievements

- Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms in 2024, 2025 and 2026, according to Chronosphere announcements.
- DoorDash reported a framework of 14,000 SLOs using Chronosphere in September 2024.
- Company-published January 2025 results report Snap cut data volumes by more than 50% and on-call pages by 90%.
- Acquired by Palo Alto Networks in January 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Announced AI-Guided Troubleshooting in limited availability and a generally available MCP Server.
- **2026-01** — Palo Alto Networks completed the acquisition on January 29; Martin Mao became SVP, GM Observability.
- **2026-07** — Company reported ARR exceeding $300 million, a third consecutive Gartner Leader designation and progress on Cortex AgentiX integration.

## Links

- Website: https://chronosphere.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chronosphereio/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/chronosphereio
- GitHub: https://github.com/chronosphereio
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chronosphere-observability

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Last updated: 2026-09-30