With more than 5,000 enterprise customers and $147 million raised from investors, Datadog Inc. is one of the better-established players in the cloud monitoring market. Now, the company is looking to expand its reach with the announcement today that it has acquired Paris-based Logmatic.io.

The low-key startup has developed a service that can help companies analyze the activity logs generated by their applications. Typically, these records describe specific events such as a configuration change or a server failure. By contrast, Datadog’s platform focuses mainly on processing metrics, which track performance and other operational activity that is most useful when it’s quantified.

The company will incorporate Logmatic.io’s technology into its offering to let users analyze both data types through a single interface. According to Datadog, the integration is set to make the platform the first on the market to offer such an extensive operational view.

This centralized approach has the potential to mesh well with infrastructure and application teams’ workflow. If some users start reporting an issue with a cloud service, the administrator on call may start troubleshooting the problem by checking key infrastructure metrics. In case they spot a noteworthy deviation, they could check the logs from around the time the problem started to see if anything happened that requires special attention.

Datadog has already implemented an initial integration with Logmatic.io that available to select customers via a private beta. As part of the acquisition, the team behind the startup has joined Datadog’s Paris engineering office to help with the development effort. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The acquisition should put the company in a better position to compete with the other monitor providers that offer unified log and metric analysis capabilities. Among them is Redwood City, California-based Sumo Logic Inc., which closed a $75 million funding round in June.

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