SmartBear Acquires OpenTelemetry Pioneer Aspecto to Give Developers Greater Application Visibility
Summary
Combining Aspecto’s OTel-based distributed tracing with BugSnag application error monitoring enables development teams to rapidly identify and fix end user issues SmartBear, a leading provider of software development and visibility tools, today announced the acquisition of Aspecto, an OpenTelemetry (OTel) pioneer. The acquisition provides developers a unique capability to rapidly identify and correct bugs in distributed environments through the integration with the market-leading error tracking and performance monitoring solution, BugSnag from SmartBear. “Today, BugSnag provides developers visibility into their end users’ experiences of their app, whether it’s unforeseen errors, crashes, or performance issues. Developers can use Aspecto’s OpenTelemetry-based observability platform to visualize complex traces, optimize performance, deliver greater collaboration with APIs, better explore microservices, and improve the testing and analysis of staging and production infrastructures. The company’s observability platform provides visibility into every interaction and performance issue occurring within distributed services, allowing developers to troubleshoot bottlenecks and errors while correlating root causes across traces, logs, and metrics.