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CrowdStrike to Acquire Fiddler AI to Bring Agent Observability and Explainability to Falcon Platform
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CrowdStrike has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fiddler AI, a specialist in AI observability and explainability, in a move that will extend its Falcon cybersecurity platform into the growing field of AI agent monitoring and governance.
Announced on November 3, 2026, at Fal.Con Europe in Barcelona, the proposed acquisition will bring Fiddler's technology into CrowdStrike's platform under the name Falcon Observe. The planned offering is designed to help enterprises evaluate AI agents before deployment, monitor their behaviour in production and understand the decisions and actions they take.
The transaction comes as businesses increasingly deploy autonomous AI agents capable of accessing systems, using tools and executing tasks with limited human intervention. While these capabilities create new operational opportunities, they also introduce risks that traditional cybersecurity controls were not designed to address.
Bringing Visibility and Accountability to AI Agents
Fiddler's technology focuses on helping organisations understand how AI systems behave, why they make particular decisions and where their performance or outputs may deviate from expectations.
Through the planned Falcon Observe offering, CrowdStrike intends to extend this visibility across the AI agent lifecycle.
The platform is expected to include several capabilities:
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Pre-deployment evaluation: Assess agent accuracy, task completion and policy compliance before systems enter production.
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Agent traceability: Track decisions, reasoning paths and tool calls across agent workflows to understand how actions were taken.
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Behavioural monitoring: Identify behavioural drift, hallucinations and unintended actions during production use.
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Governance and auditability: Maintain records of agent decisions and activities to support enterprise oversight and compliance.
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AI cost management: Track token usage and spending across agents, with CrowdStrike stating that purpose-built evaluation models can reduce evaluation costs by up to 98%.
Fiddler's technology also supports OpenTelemetry instrumentation and frameworks including LangGraph, Amazon Bedrock, AWS Strands and Google ADK, enabling organisations to monitor agents across different development environments.
Extending CrowdStrike's AI Security Strategy
The acquisition strengthens CrowdStrike's broader strategy to secure AI systems as they move from experimentation into business-critical operations.
The company already provides security capabilities across endpoint, cloud and identity environments through its Falcon platform. Its Falcon Guardian innovations are designed to protect AI agents against attacks and misuse at runtime.
Fiddler adds a complementary layer: understanding whether agents are behaving as intended, identifying failures and providing evidence of what happened.
Together, these capabilities are intended to give enterprises a more complete view of AI security and safety, connecting agent identity and runtime protection with observability, evaluation and accountability.
For organisations deploying agents across business applications, software development and enterprise workflows, this visibility could become increasingly important as they seek to demonstrate that automated systems operate within approved boundaries.
Fiddler's Journey from AI Explainability to Agent Observability
Founded in 2018 by Krishna Gade and Amit Paka, Fiddler began with a focus on helping enterprises understand and monitor machine-learning models.
Its work evolved alongside the broader AI market, expanding from model explainability and monitoring into generative AI evaluation, agent observability and runtime guardrails.
Krishna Gade, Fiddler's CEO and co-founder, said the company was founded to help businesses understand the AI systems they depend on. Joining CrowdStrike gives Fiddler an opportunity to bring its technology to a wider enterprise market and connect AI observability directly with cybersecurity operations.
The acquisition will also bring Fiddler's capabilities into a global cybersecurity platform with an established enterprise customer base.
Transaction Details
CrowdStrike has not disclosed the financial value of the proposed acquisition. The purchase price is expected to be paid predominantly in cash, with a portion in stock subject to vesting conditions.
The transaction is expected to close during CrowdStrike's fourth quarter of fiscal 2027, subject to customary closing conditions.
Following completion, Fiddler's technology is expected to be offered as Falcon Observe, with general availability planned for the same fiscal quarter.
The deal reflects a wider shift in enterprise security: as AI agents take on more responsibility, organisations will need not only to protect the systems they operate in, but also to understand and account for the decisions they make.
About Company
CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity company providing cloud-native security solutions through its Falcon platform. Its offerings span endpoint, cloud, identity and data security, threat intelligence and AI-powered detection and response.
Fiddler AI is an AI observability and explainability company founded in 2018. Its technology helps organisations evaluate, monitor and understand machine-learning models and AI agents, supporting performance, safety, governance and accountability.