That's really a shame, Cisco buying anyone is often a death knell for the product. Look at their acquisition of security companies like Protego, Stealthwatch, ThousandEyes, and others that languish there, bled into watered down features for other dubious Cisco products and disappear into the ocean. Customers then abandon the products to again escape Cisco for other non-stagnant and overpriced products.

Already a customer/friend at a $6B retail customer of mine sent me the link first thing as a Splunk owner there. Just last week I asked if they'd looked at Datadog much yet, and said they'd rip Splunk from their cold dead hands. The follow up to the link for buyout news as that they were going to start looking at Datadog now. Splunk was already expensive, but not Cisco expensive.