Today, Elastic announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Deductive AI, an AI-powered investigation platform that helps engineering teams identify and resolve production issues faster.

As modern applications become more distributed, interconnected and complex, teams have more telemetry than ever before and engineers are spending too much time piecing together information across tools to understand what happened, why it happened, and what to do next. Deductive AI was built to address that challenge. 

Deductive AI has built an AI SRE agent that connects to a customer’s code, telemetry sources, and organizational knowledge to help engineering teams investigate alerts and production issues. The agent conducts root cause analysis by gathering evidence, forming and testing hypotheses, and reasoning across multiple sources of context to help teams understand what happened, why it happened, and what should happen next. Every investigation also becomes a learning opportunity, with successful investigation paths continuously refined and reused to improve future investigations.

The acquisition accelerates our goal to bring more AI-powered investigation and automation to Elastic Observability. By combining Elastic’s existing AI capabilities to infer meaningful entities, relationships, and significant operational events from telemetry with Deductive AI’s knowledge graph and investigation engine, we will help users identify root cause faster, reduce time spent on manual investigation, and resolve production issues more efficiently.

Existing Deductive AI customers will continue to receive support while integration plans are developed. We look forward to sharing more details about our product roadmap in the coming months.

We asked Rakesh Kothari, CEO and co-founder of Deductive AI, to share some words on what it means to join Elastic:

“From the beginning, our goal was to help engineering teams accelerate root cause analysis and incident investigation, so they could focus on what truly drives impact: building and shipping great products. Joining Elastic allows us to bring that vision to more customers at a far greater scale and accelerate the development of AI-powered investigation capabilities. We couldn’t be more excited about what’s ahead.“

I’m delighted to welcome co-founders Rakesh and Sameer to Elastic along with the rest of the Deductive AI team, and we look forward to building the future of AI-powered observability together.