Why did VMware acquire Wavefront? The start of the answer to this question comes with an understanding of what Wavefront is (or was). Wavefront was started by former Google engineers who set out to build a monitoring system for the commercial market that had the same features and benefits as the monitoring system that Google had built for itself.
Due to the massive scale of Google, such a system would have to have two key attributes:
- The ability to consume and process massive amounts of data very quickly. In fact, the Wavefront website make the claim, “Enterprise-grade cloud monitoring and analytics at over 1 million data points per second.”
- The ability to quickly find what you want in this massive ocean of data
