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Palo Alto Networks Acquires Chronosphere for Observability Expansion

November 21, 2025 • Kavout

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This episode discuss Palo Alto Networks' substantial acquisition of Chronosphere for $3.35 billion, an observability platform specializing in analyzing data across IT environments. This strategic purchase is intended to bolster Palo Alto's AI-driven cybersecurity offerings and enhance data observability capabilities, particularly for modern AI workloads. The reports emphasize that this acquisition, alongside the firm's prior $25 billion deal for CyberArk, is part of a larger "platformization" strategy to consolidate various security tools and aggressively expand its market presence. Furthermore, the news coincided with Palo Alto Networks’ strong first-quarter earnings report and comments from CEO Nikesh Arora highlighting the necessity of real-time security and the impending threat posed by quantum computing to current encryption standards.