The 20 Coolest Cloud Monitoring And Management Companies Of The 2023 Cloud 100

Datadog, Netreo and PagerDuty are among the companies on this year’s 20 Coolest Cloud Monitoring and Management Companies list from CRN.

New features, more integrations and millions of dollars in investment funding are just some of the highlights of the cloud monitoring and management companies on this year’s Cloud 100 list.

Cloud monitoring and management for the sake of keeping customer experience of applications in top shape, to make sure the software stack is secure and to create guardrails against blowing past financial budgets should continue to attract users even as companies take another look at spending amid potential recession concerns.

In fact, ways to provide more control over company IT environments and tools and ways to automate those controls are exactly what some businesses will look for this year.

In October, research firm Gartner released a study predicting that cloud management and security services spending should reach $41.7 billion in 2023. That’s a 20 percent increase year over year.

As part of CRN’s 2023 Cloud 100, here’s a look at the coolest companies taking on cloud monitoring and management.

AppDynamics

Ronak Desai

SVP, GM, Cisco AppDynamics, Full-Stack Observability

Cisco’s AppDynamics subsidiary has added business transaction insight capabilities to its AppDynamics Cloud observability offering. The new features allow users to optimize performance and fix issues in near-real-time for AWS-connected applications, services and workloads.

Catchpoint

Mehdi Daoudi

Co-Founder, CEO

Catchpoint has invested in its digital resilience and experience monitoring offerings with new internet performance monitoring capabilities, a website experience monitoring tool and the expansion of the WebPageTest platform. The company also has added anomaly detection and intelligent metric correlation to its platform.

CloudBolt Software

Jeff Kukowski

CEO

CloudBolt has taken its hybrid cloud and cost management tools to the next level with new framework capabilities. In an effort to further automate cloud spend optimization, remediation and other actions, the company added role-based cloud visibility and reporting and a curated automation and integration elements content library.

Datadog

Olivier Pomel

Co-Founder, CEO

Datadog has made its cloud cost management and universal microservices monitoring tools generally available. The company also acquired collaboration platform CoScreen, security testing software provider Hdiv, cloud visualization service provider Cloudcraft and API observability tools provider Seekret.

Devo Technology

Marc van Zadelhoff

CEO

Devo has expanded its relationship with AWS, achieving a security competency status and inking a multiyear strategic collaboration designed in part to benefit MSSPs. The company also acquired security orchestration, automation and response provider LogicHub and autonomous threat hunting tool company Kognos.

Dynatrace

Rick McConnell

CEO

Dynatracehas rolled out its new DevSecOps automation partner program and enhanced its Davis AI engine and Grail causational data lakehouse offerings. The company also extended Grail into power business analytics and Davis into ad hoc exploratory analytics.

Exoprise

Jason Lieblich

Founder, President

Exoprise added new capabilities to its Service Watch performance monitoring platform, including the ability for end-to-end network path analysis, packet loss and latency detection for conversations using audio and video, and hop-by-hop diagnosis for streaming applications.

Flexera

Jim Ryan

President, CEO

Flexera boosted its Flexera One platform with new financial operations offerings while deepening its relationship with IBM. The company added cloud spend anomaly detection based on any dimension, forecasting of cloud spend and usage plus more integration with Jira, ServiceNow and other tools.

Harness

Jyoti Bansal

Co-Founder, CEO

Harness launched a global MSP partner program to expand use of its Cloud Cost Management module for financial operations, DevOps and IT teams. The company also released a fully managed cluster orchestrator tool for optimizing Kubernetes cloud workload costs, deepening its integration with AWS products.

LogicMonitor

Christina Kosmowski

CEO

LogicMoni­tor launched its LM Envi­sion unified observabil­ity platform, giving users new ways to visualize their IT data supply chain and assess the health of thousands of IT assets and applications. The company also launched a framework for resiliency readiness, furthering its status as an expert on digital preparedness.

Moogsoft

Phil Tee

Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO

Moogsoft updated its platform with a correlation results pre­view function, a workflow engine trigger preview and custom administra­tion roles. The company also added new Windows OS support for Moogsoft Collector, improved the user on-boarding experi­ence and enhanced its incident and alert filters.

Nerdio

Vadim Vladimirskiy

CEO

Nerdio turned heads with its revamped Partnerd partner program for MSPs and added features to its Nerdio Manager for MSPs tool, including scripted actions and an approval workflow. The company last year announced a $117 million Series B round of funding, positioning the company well for 2023.

Netreo

Jasmin Young

CEO

Netreo inked an agree­ment with Arrow Elec­tronics to help it sell exclusively through the channel and rolled out new features in its cloud monitoring products. The company’s tools provide observ­ability and monitoring for products by Google, Salesforce and other cloud providers.

New Relic

Bill Staples

CEO

New Relic overhauled its partner program, increasing resources for its growing roster of partners. On the product side, the com­pany launched add-ons for more AWS offerings, expanded access to its vulnerability manage­ment offering and made its Monitoring for SAP Solutions tool generally available.

OpsRamp

Varma Kunaparaju

Co-Founder, CEO

OpsRamp in 2022 sur­passed 2,500 integrations with its digital operations management tools, covering almost every commonly used technology by service pro­viders. The company also broadened its AIOps plat­form with integrated log management, centralized log ingestion, automated log parsing and log archiving.

PagerDuty

Jennifer Tejada

Chairperson, CEO

PagerDuty beefed up its Opera­tions Cloud, adding inte­grated customer-facing status pages, more flex­ible incident workflows and configurable AIOps-powered alert grouping. The company also added automated incident work­flows, diagnostics and remediation to Operations Cloud.

ScienceLogic

David Link

Founder, CEO

Science Logic acquired Zebrium last year, boost­ing its machine learning analytics capabilities. In December, the company reported $10.78 million in net annual contract value and 36 percent growth year over year.

Spectro Cloud

Tenry Fu

Co-Founder, CEO

Spectro Cloud’s Pal­ette 3.0 aims to bring more control to Kubernetes environments, better fleet management and an improved devel­oper experience. The company also introduced a new release of the Palette Edge platform, adding hardened edge Kubernetes distribution with immutable, read-only stacks.

Uila

Chia-Chee Kuan

Co-Founder, CEO

Uila unveiled new intel­ligent Nvidia GPU met­rics in its uObserve observability platform so that desktop teams can optimize vir­tual desktop performance. The company also added intelligent log analysis for multi-cloud environments and a customizable script­ing capability for VMware offerings.

Virtana

Kash Shaikh

President, CEO

Virtana’s new Kubernetes strategy delivers con­tainer support across its portfolio and actionable infrastructure insight for users. It has expanded that strategy with infrastructure per­formance management and monitoring support, with the same real-time information for containers as users have for legacy cloud infrastructure.