The 20 Coolest Cloud Monitoring And Management Companies Of The 2026 Cloud 100
Atlassian, Zebra Technologies, Kion, Dynatrace, Datadog and Drata are among CRN’s coolest cloud monitoring and management companies of the 2026 Cloud 100.
Cloud computing in the age of artificial intelligence and AI agents will continue to grow in complexity, with multiple entrants in this year’s “Coolest Cloud Monitoring and Management Companies of The Cloud 100” list including multiple players investing in observability, workflow automation and specialized agents to decrease risks.
Returning heavyweights to this year’s list include Atlassian, Zebra Technologies and Kion for their continued investment in their product portfolio to advance how solution providers monitor and manage cloud estates for their customers.
Newcomers to this year’s list include established players such as Dynatrace and Datadog plus upstart Drata, with these vendors breaking new ground in monitoring and management tools that promise solution providers greater peace of mind over client IT estates and serve as potential cost optimizers for their capabilities in issue prevention and by measuring usage.
That financial operations practice could turbocharge a solution provider’s business should clients look to save more money for AI and cybersecurity investments in 2026.
For solution providers, investment in cloud monitoring and management tools and making sure they’ve backed the right horse in this competitive market makes sense. In November, Forrester predicted that 2026 will see at least two multi-day cloud outages as the biggest cloud vendors prioritize GPU-centric data centers for AI workloads and aging infrastructure gets weighed down by growing complexity.
The research firm also expects at least 15 percent of enterprises to invest in private clouds for building private AI deployments to feel more in control over rising AI costs, data lock-in and operational risk—not to mention the growing reliance on cloud-native technologies by developers.
Read on for 2026’s coolest cloud monitoring and management companies for the channel. And be sure to read CRN’s other Cloud 100 2026 reports on cloud infrastructure, cloud security, cloud software and cloud storage.
Atlassian
Mike Cannon-Brookes
Co-Founder, CEO
Atlassian surpassed 3.5 million monthly active users of its AI capabilities and achieved 2.4 million workflow automations through its Rovo agentic AI offer in 2025. The provider of issue-tracking platform Jira, collaborative workspace Confluence, code hosting service Bitbucket and other IT tools made strategic acquisitions to set up it and its ecosystem for success in 2026 with the purchases of AI-powered web browser provider The Browser Co. and engineering intelligence company DX.
AvePoint
TJ Jiang
Co-Founder, CEO
AvePoint’s 2025 innovations spanned products—with new data backup and AI agent governance capabilities in its Confidence digital workplace management platform—and ecosystem with an enhanced points-based partner program aimed at accelerating growth and sharing resources.
Datadog
Olivier Pomel
Co-Founder, CEO
Alongside reaching a milestone 1,000 integrations with its observability platform, Datadog expanded its capabilities through a storage management waste and unexpected cloud object storage spend prevention tool and entered the agentic era of alerts and actionable root cause analyses with its Bits AI SRE, which takes in telemetry, architecture and organizational context to better arm engineers for faster incident resolution.
Drata
Adam Markowitz
Co-Founder, CEO
Drata took its compliance automation and risk management platform to another level with its AI Agent for Vendor Risk Management to automate criteria extraction and mapping, speed up risk score assigning and for automatic vendor reassessment as new responses come in—with promises for more agentic features to come.
Dynatrace
Rick McConnell
CEO
Deeper integrations with leading cloud vendors and innovations ranging from a sensitive data scanner, improvements to the Davis CoPilot AI-powered assistant for observability and new capabilities in cost and carbon emission optimization are among the advancements positioning this vendor well for 2026.
Gigamon
Shane Buckley
President, CEO
Traffic intelligence for surfacing shadow AI use, support for post-quantum cryptography to defend against threats in encrypted traffic plus the Gigamon Insights agentic AI application purpose-built for network-derived telemetry are some of the ways this observability pipeline vendor is innovating for a new era of IT.
Gurucul
Saryu Nayyar
CEO
To bring AI to insider risk management, Gurucul has been at work leveraging the cutting-edge technology for autonomous triaging, dynamic alerting, bias-free scoring and context-rich investigations to reduce security mean times to resolution and scale Security Operations Centers to new heights.
Kion
Brian Wilson
CEO
Kion positioned its cloud operations and financial operations tools for growth in 2026 through its Lux in-app AI assistant for task automation and insight surfacing plus enhanced cost forecasting and management capabilities beyond public cloud.
LogicMonitor
Christina Kosmowski
CEO
LogicMonitor continues to reach new heights with its observability tools portfolio through the acquisition of Catchpoint to enhance digital experience monitoring, enhanced predictive resilience capabilities in its Edwin AI agent and increased access to LM Uptime and Dynamic Service Insights.
NetBrain
Lingping Gao
Founder, Chairman, CEO
A war chest that brought NetBrain’s valuation to $750 million and a new Ace+ partner program promise to help scale the vendor’s no-code automation platform for hybrid network observability worldwide in 2026 and to bring channel partners new opportunities in hardware refresh identification, security vulnerability hunting and misconfiguration finding.
Nobl9
Marcin Kurc
Co-Founder, CEO
A service level objectives oversight capability for quality checks and anomaly detection is just one of the recent advancements Nobl9 has made to its site reliability management technology to help teams prioritize work and deliver better customer experiences.
NinjaOne
Sal Sferlazza
Co-Founder, CEO
NinjaOne has expanded beyond its traditional endpoint management, remote monitoring and management and cloud-based agent patch delivery with improved ways for MSPs to conduct remote access and manage Mac devices. Its acquisition of Dropsuite also sets up the vendor for more use cases in backups across endpoints, servers and cloud environments.
Rafay Systems
Haseeb Budhani
Co-Founder, CEO
Rafay has transformed its infrastructure orchestration and workflow automation platform for Kubernetes and GPU-based environments with enhanced managed services, built-in governance, more changes testing and validation options and an agent pool configuration for simplified scaling and custom workflow handlers for Python and Go, among other enhancements.
RapidScale
Duane Barnes
President
Recent advancements by RapidScale, part of Cox Business, include an accelerated adoption program to help customers maximize the value of their current VMware Cloud Foundation investments in a consumption-based service delivery mode plus a cyber exposure monitoring product for proactive safeguarding of data and digital assets.
ScienceLogic
David Link
Founder, CEO
ScienceLogic’s Skylar One platform has evolved the vendor beyond traditional observability through AI workload monitoring and visibility, low-code IT ecosystem orchestration, agentic-AI-powered proactive remediation, improved location-based visualization of monitored assets and optimized high-availability failover and multiproxy agent support.
Spectro Cloud
Tenry Fu
Co-Founder, CEO
PaletteAI is Spectro Cloud’s answer to enterprise-grade secure control over AI stacks with policy guardrails, self-service orchestration, automated provisioning and one-to-many deployment options across environments, giving IT teams a new leg up in the world of Kubernetes cluster management from edge to cloud.
Splunk
Kamal Hathi
SVP, GM
Cisco subsidiary Splunk enhanced its observability portfolio with AI-powered agents deployable across the full incident response life cycle with automatic troubleshooting, automated alert correlation and episode summarization–not to mention a new agentic security operations portfolio with agents aimed at triaging and malware reversal and AI enhancements to playbook authoring and the detection library.
Tangoe
James Parker
CEO
Tangoe positions its technology as a way to manage IT assets and control cloud, mobile and telecommunications costs. The vendor aims to tackle device sprawl and cybersecurity threats through its AI-powered software and services that process 370,000 invoices monthly.
Tigera
Ratan Tipirneni
President, CEO
Tigera has been hard at work transforming its open-source Project Calico Kubernetes security and management tool for the AI age, with the cutting-edge technology powering an intelligent Calico AI assistant and better ways to access flow logs and metrics generated by Calico and see service-to-service communications alongside workload-specific context.
Zebra Technologies
Bill Burns
CEO
AI’s growth in wearable technology sets up Zebra for a potentially blockbuster 2026, not to mention investments the vendor has made in its newly established connected frontline and asset visibility and automation segments plus the inspired acquisition of Elo to boost self-service and point-of-sale capabilities.