Microsoft just announced that it has acquired MetricsHub, a service that automates cloud performance management and helps its customers manage their cloud services more efficiently. MetricsHub participated in the Microsoft Azure Accelerator, a competitive three-month accelerator program the company hosts in collaboration with TechStars.
The program provides these companies with $20,000 from TechStars, $60,000 worth of cloud computing services on Azure, office space in Seattle and, it seems, a chance to be acquired by Microsoft.
Windows Azure users, Microsoft also today announced, can now use a “pre-release, no charge, version of MetricsHub’s Active Cloud Monitoring,” which is available through the Windows Azure store. All of its paying customers, MetricsHub noted today, will be converted to the free plan.
The financial details of the transaction remain under wraps, but the service currently only has 374 users, so chances are the price wasn’t all that high.
MetricsHub provides users with the ability to scale their service up or down as needed and offers health and performance monitoring with alerts and notifications when things go wrong. It’s not quite as fully featured as New Relic or similar tools, but it’s definitely a great and free service for companies that run on Microsoft’s Azure platform.
“Cloud solutions are compelling for a variety of reasons – scale, flexibility and value – particularly for companies looking to do more with less, Bob Kelly, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for strategy and business development writes in today’s announcement. “However, it’s difficult to understand, monitor and correlate all the application data points that tell you how and when you need to scale your application. “
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