The 20 Coolest Cloud Monitoring And Management Companies Of The 2025 Cloud 100

Atlassian, Gurucul and Zebra Technologies are among CRN’s coolest cloud monitoring and management companies of the 2025 Cloud 100.


A giant in project management tools. An upstart in threat detection powered by artificial intelligence. And a scanning and tracking technologies vendor still innovating after 50-plus years in business.

Atlassian, Gurucul and Zebra Technologies are some of the vendors to make CRN’s 20 Coolest Cloud Monitoring and Management Companies of the 2025 Cloud 100.

As solution providers and their customers enter the AI era of workplace technology and the demand for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud options grows, vendors offering products to make monitoring and managing these technologies hold a compelling opportunity for solution providers already in the space and those looking to dive deeper.

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In November, a Gartner report forecast worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services at $723.4 billion in 2025, up from $595.7 billion in 2024 and showing more room for growth even this far into workplace technology’s cloud era. The research firm also credits AI adoption for accelerating cloud computing.

Gartner predicts that 90 percent of organizations will adopt a hybrid cloud approach through 2027. Data synchronization across hybrid cloud environments is the most urgent generative AI challenge organizations need to address in 2025, opening an opportunity for solution providers.

As part of CRN’s 2025 Cloud 100 list, here are some of the key companies taking on cloud monitoring and management.


AlertOps
Chellasamy Jamburajan
CEO

IT provider-focused incident response vendor AlertOps has been at work strengthening its channel partner commitment, trying to simplify how it works with partners and investing in artificial intelligence to automate mundane tasks such as closing tickets and turning off servers. The vendor has improved its enablement tools, building stronger relationships across the IT ecosystem and redefined its messaging.

AppDynamics
Ronak Desai
SVP, GM

The team at Cisco-owned AppDynamics has made advancement a core tenet of its product development, recently expanding its observability tools for Microsoft Azure hosting and adding AI-powered anomaly detection and root cause analysis. Cisco’s integration of Splunk across its product portfolio gives AppDynamics partners plenty to look forward to as the effort continues in 2025.

Atlassian
Mike Cannon-Brookes
Co-Founder, CEO

A multiyear strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services, an updated version of project management tool Jira and an AI-powered Rovo search tool are some of the late 2024 news that positions Atlassian as a force this year. Atlassian also continues to add AI and other advancements across its product portfolio, which includes collaboration tool Trello and collaborative workplace Confluence.

Devo Technology

Walter Scott
CEO

Security data analytics is poised to be more important in this AI IT era, making Devo Technology a company to watch in the space. Recent launches of data orchestration and enhancements to Security Operations Center workflow enhancements are among the recent innovations the vendor has brought to partners.

Gigamon
Shane Buckley
President, CEO

Gigamon’s “Power of 3” cloud integration initiative has brought together multiple channel partners and technology alliance partners in the name of giving users greater hybrid cloud infrastructure management and security. The vendor’s initiatives so far have included one with Dynatrace and Trace3 and another with Blackwood and Cribl.

Gurucul
Saryu Nayyar
CEO

Gurucul looks to disrupt the security analytics market with its AI-powered threat detection, investigation and response Reveal platform plus a recently unveiled complimentary migration program for security information and event management, user and entity behavior analytics, and security orchestration, automation and response.

Hydrolix
Marty Kagan
Co-Founder, CEO

Hydrolix is investing in partners as part of its journey to disrupt observability and security with its streaming data lake. The upstart, founded in 2018, unveiled the Powered By Hydrolix Partner Program in 2024 and has pledged to on-board new partners this year to bring its log data products to more customers.

InsightFinder

Helen Gu
Founder, Chief Scientist, CEO

InsightFinder looks to take on 2025 with an AI Observability product that applies the vendor’s unsupervised machine learning algorithms to model input data and underlying infrastructure for real-time anomaly detection, rapid root cause analysis and other activities that can identify model drift and hallucinations.

Kion
Brian Price
Co-Founder, CEO

More AI and multi-cloud demand means more unified governance demand. And Kion has elevated its products to capitalize on the trend, with late 2024 enhancements that include support for the System for Cross-Identity Management, Focus billing sources and customized compliance at the project level.

LogicMonitor
Christina Kosmowski
CEO

LogicMonitor enters 2025 with a hefty war chest of $800 million in new equity and strategic financing, bringing the hybrid observability platform provider to a $2.4 billion valuation including debt. Partners should expect to see the vendor continue to bridge AI and data center operations for improved performance, sustainability and resilience.

Nerdio
Vadim Vladimirskiy
Co-Founder, CEO

Nerdio has been moving deeper into the Microsoft cloud product portfolio with its management tools for MSPs, most recently expanding into centralized management for the tech giant’s collaboration tool Teams, file storage products OneDrive and SharePoint and email product Exchange Online, among other Microsoft offerings.

NetBrain
Lingping Gao
Founder, Chairman, CEO

An AI copilot for assessing, orchestrating and summarizing network automation results with natural language and a studio for reverse-engineering a network’s design rules and features are some of the advancements NetBrain has introduced to its no-code network automation and dynamic mapping platform.

Nobl9
Marcin Kurc
Co-Founder, CEO

Software reliability upstart Nobl9, founded in 2019, closed 2024 with an updated feature for aggregating multiple service-level objectives within a single SLO to simplify overall performance views of complex services including e-commerce websites and digital banking platforms.

Rafay
Haseeb Budhani

Co-Founder, CEO

Recent iterations on Rafay’s Platform-as-a-Service offering for cloud-native and GPU and AI consumption include the addition of enterprise-grade controls, customer-specific policy enforcement and granular chargeback data, among other capabilities.

RapidScale
Duane Barnes
President

Cox Business-owned RapidScale is expanding into new markets with recently launched offerings for AI-driven Contact Center as a Service, SD-WAN and the Explorer platform for guiding IT leaders through technology options based on business priorities.

ScienceLogic
David Link
Founder, CEO

ScienceLogic’s AIOps platform sees broadly across clouds, on-premises and at the edge to enable business service visibility with workflow automation to eliminate manual tasks. The vendor has been innovating around edge infrastructure monitoring and management for years.

Spectro Cloud
Tenry Fu
Co-Founder, CEO

Spectro Cloud and its Palette Kubernetes management platform enter 2025 with a hefty war chest of $75 million to help it push product innovation in edge computing and scale new go-to-market partnerships. Compelling product improvements from the upstart, founded in 2019, include an “edge in a box” offering with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and an extension for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Hybrid Nodes.

Tigera
Ratan Tipirneni
President, CEO

Tigera continues to advance its Project Calico container networking and security technology with recent investments in expanding Calico to virtual machines and hosts, fine-tuning detectors to eliminate noise and improving container image vulnerability remediation efficiency.

Unravel Data
Kunal Agarwal
Co-Founder, CEO

Unravel Data has positioned itself as a contender in the unfolding market for AI agents, releasing in 2024 agents for data operations, financial operations and data engineering to improve how users leverage the company’s data actionability platform for cost management and analysis.

Zebra Technologies
Bill Burns
CEO

Zebra Technologies turned heads in 2024 with new data insight products for retailers, and it’s making a bold entrance in 2025 with the close of its Photoneo purchase this quarter. Zebra, founded in 1969 and known as a provider of data and asset connection tools, will leverage Photoneo’s 3-D machine vision products to improve Zebra’s advanced sensors and AI-based image processing capabilities.

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