ClickHouse acquires Langfuse for LLM observability

In a wave of industry consolidation across nine months, ClickHouse acquired Langfuse, Cisco integrated Galileo into Splunk, and Dynatrace purchased Arize for $915 million. The author examines this buying spree, noting that major platform vendors are racing to combine pre-launch evaluation and production monitoring into a single offering. To protect against vendor lock-in and churn resulting from such acquisitions, the author recommends instrumenting code against the open OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions rather than relying entirely on proprietary SDKs. Open article →