Cisco today announced its intent to acquire Epsagon, a startup specializing in distributed application tracing in containerized and serverless environments.

While neither company disclosed the terms of the deal, Crunchbase reports Epsagon has raised $30 million in venture capital since it was founded in 2018.

“Epsagon will play a key role in expanding and accelerating Cisco’s comprehensive full-stack observability roadmap,” Cisco Chief Strategy Officer Liz Centoni wrote in a blog post.

Cisco announced its full-stack observability platform this spring during its Cisco Live event. The service paired the network visibility services offered by ThousandEyes with application performance monitoring capabilities from AppDynamics.

At the time, Cisco claimed the combined offering would enable network and development operations teams to accelerate root cause analysts and eliminate blind spots holding up the adoption of software-as-a-service, internet, and cloud services.

According to Centoni, as businesses have accelerated application development, they’ve adopted cloud-native technologies, microservices, and containerized components at scale. This, she argues, has led to an increase in complexity for the IT teams tasked with monitoring the performance of these services.

“Traditional domain-centric monitoring tools only address some of these needs and for a single area at a time,” Centoni wrote.

Customer expectations are higher than ever, and Epsagon will help businesses ensure that every component of their application runs smoothly, she added. “Epsagon’s technology and talent align will with Cisco’s vision to enable enterprises to deliver unmatched application experiences.”

When the acquisition closes, the Epsagon team will join Cisco's Strategy Incubation and Application group.