Honeycomb announced the acquisition of Grit, an open-source query system and AI agent, to help customers instrument complex software systems for end-to-end observability.
Grit developed an open source query system and AI agent that can programmatically search and modify codebases. With this acquisition, Honeycomb will be able to make it dramatically easier to adopt custom instrumentation. Grit's founder, Morgante Pell, is joining the Honeycomb engineering team to lead development of even more AI features that can combine Grit's codebase knowledge with Honeycomb's rich observability data to build better software.
"Honeycomb is committed to helping engineering teams realize the full potential of AI, while delivering the system reliability and exceptional experiences their customers expect," said Christine Yen, CEO and cofounder. "Grit's technology solves major OpenTelemetry adoption hurdles, delivering the comprehensive observability our customers need to effectively manage their software systems and AI-powered applications."
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