CUPERTINO, Calif. - September 4, 2026 - Kloudfuse today announced that the Kloudfuse Unified Observability Platform has won the 2026 CloudX Award for Best Innovation in Cloud Monitoring & Observability. Ashish Hanwadikar, co-founder and CTO, accepted the award at the CloudX Awards Ceremony on September 1 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

The CloudX Awards are presented by DevNetwork, producer of the CloudX conference, and decided by the DevNetwork Cloud Advisory Board, an independent panel of industry practitioners. Winners are named across 19 categories and evaluated on technical innovation, adoption, media attention, community recognition and category leadership.

Kloudfuse was recognized for an architecture that inverts the standard observability model. Rather than shipping telemetry to a vendor's cloud, the data lake, query engine and AI runtime deploy inside the customer's own VPC. Metrics, logs, traces, events and LLM telemetry land in a single unified data lake at full cardinality with no sampling, in the customer's own object storage under their own keys, correlated on arrival so an investigation begins in one place rather than across tools. Kloudfuse prices on telemetry ingested rather than on hosts, cardinality, seats or retention, giving teams a cost model they can forecast as volumes grow.

"Every enterprise we meet has been sold the same arrangement: send us your telemetry and we will show you your systems," said Pankaj Thakkar, co-founder and CEO of Kloudfuse. "At today's telemetry volumes, that trade no longer works. Teams are deciding how much of their own production they can afford to see. This award validates our belief that the problem needs to be solved at the architecture level, not with another discount."

“For a decade this industry taught engineers to ration visibility,” said Ashish Hanwadikar, co-founder and CTO of Kloudfuse. “You sample because ingest is metered, drop dimensions because cardinality is billed, and then the incident lands in the gap you created. AI raises the stakes: an agent is only as good as the data it can reach. We built Kloudfuse so that observability data stays unsampled, contextual and under the customer's control.”

Zscaler runs more than 300 TB of telemetry per day on Kloudfuse across 78 engineering teams, retiring over 30 point tools while keeping all of it in-house. Automation Anywhere cut observability cost 50 percent while ingesting five times the data, and Innovaccer cut MTTR 23 percent and halved customer-reported issues. Kloudfuse is also deployed at GE HealthCare, Workday and Tata 1mg, and is SOC 2 Type II examined and FIPS 140-3 validated.

"The 2026 CloudX Award winners are advancing what's possible across cloud computing, infrastructure, platform engineering, and cloud-native technologies," said Jonathan Pasky, Executive Producer and Co-Founder of DevNetwork. "Kloudfuse's recognition reflects its meaningful impact on the future of cloud innovation."

About Kloudfuse

Kloudfuse is observability re-architected for where AI runs. Metrics, logs, traces, events and LLM telemetry land in one unified observability data lake inside the customer's own VPC, at full cardinality, with no sampling and predictable costs. The model comes to your data, not the other way around. Kloudfuse is headquartered in Cupertino, California. Learn more at kloudfuse.com.