Rootly acquires ThinkHive to bring reliability engineering to its AI agents

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Rootly has acquired ThinkHive, an AI agent reliability platform, to strengthen its incident response agents against failures like hallucination and drift that legacy monitoring cannot detect. ThinkHive traces every step an agent takes and evaluates whether it did its job, correlating metrics, traces, and evaluations to catch silent failures and cluster them into patterns. The acquisition serves a dual purpose: it addresses a critical blind spot for customers deploying AI agents into production, and it fortifies Rootly's own technology with groundedness scoring, hallucination detection, and shadow testing to ensure its agents are production-grade before touching real incidents. Rootly, trusted by companies including NVIDIA, Replit, and Canva, aims to set a new engineering bar for AI reliability in incident management. ThinkHive was founded by Nour Alkhatib and Abdulwahab Omira after their experience at Instacart, where they saw the need for better agent observability and quality evaluation.

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Rootly acquires ThinkHive to enhance its AI agents with hallucination detection and reliability features

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ThinkHive's technology is acquired by Rootly, validating its AI reliability platform

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