GoKawiilApple has acquired certain assets and hired employees from SigScalr, the company behind the observability app SigLens. Here are the details.
Apple acquires parts of SigScalr
Whenever Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, or Microsoft makes acquisitions or takes other actions that fall within the scope of Europe’s Digital Markets Act, it must notify the European Commission, which publishes details of the transactions on its website.
Today, the website was updated to reflect a new Apple acquisition involving SigScalr, the startup behind the observability platform SigLens.
SigLens is an open-source observability platform designed to help developers collect, search, and analyze logs, metrics, and traces generated by apps and infrastructure. SigScalr positioned it as a more efficient alternative to services such as Splunk, Datadog, and Elasticsearch.
Back to the acquisition, here’s what Apple told the EU:
Apple Inc. (“Apple”), through a subsidiary, will acquire certain assets of SigScalr, Inc. (“SigScalr”) and offer employment to and hire certain SigScalr employees. SigScalr develops a data log management and observability tool. Apple (together with its group companies) designs, manufactures and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables and accessories, and sells a variety of related services.
The acquisition is listed as having taken place on March 12. Since then, SigScalr’s official website has gone offline, while SigLens’ main GitHub repository was archived and made read-only.
In the archival notice, the developers said:
Today, we’re officially archiving this project. First and foremost, Thank You. 🙏 What started as an idea grew into something much bigger because of this community. Your pull requests, bug reports, feature suggestions, stars, blog posts, tweets, and words of encouragement made this project what it is. The trust you placed in us and the time you invested here truly meant a lot. As we focus on something new, the repository will remain available in read-only mode for anyone who finds it useful. If you’d like to fork it, build on it, or take it in a new direction, we wholeheartedly encourage that. We are also changing the license to a more permissive Apache 2.0 license. Open source is about shared learning and shared progress — and we’re deeply grateful to have been part of that journey with you. Thank you again for the support and the collaboration. 🙏
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