Apple has acquired certain assets and hired employees from Sig Scalr, the startup behind the observability platform Sig Lens, according to a European Commission filing under the EU Digital Markets Act. The acquisition, listed as occurring on March 12, was disclosed through a subsidiary.

Sig Lens is an open-source observability platform designed to help developers collect, search, and analyze logs, metrics, and traces from apps and infrastructure. Sig Scalr positioned it as a more efficient alternative to services like Splunk, Datadog, and Elasticsearch.

Following the acquisition, Sig Scalr's official website went offline, and the Sig Lens GitHub repository was archived and made read-only. The developers announced a license change to the more permissive Apache 2.0 license, encouraging forks and continued community development.

Apple stated it will acquire certain assets and offer employment to certain Sig Scalr employees. The move suggests Apple is bolstering its internal observability and logging capabilities, though specific integration plans remain undisclosed.