CrowdStrike to Acquire Fiddler to Deliver Agent Observability for AI Trust
Business Wire•03/11/2026•03:37 ET
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Key Highlights
- ➤CrowdStrike (CRWD) agrees to acquire Fiddler AI for predominantly cash consideration
- ➤Falcon Observe will generally be available in Q4 FY27
- ➤Fiddler adds pre-deployment evaluation, agent traceability, and behavioral accountability
- ➤Acquisition expected to close during CrowdStrike’s fourth quarter of FY27
- ➤Falcon Guardian and Fiddler will combine AI security with AI safety
Expert Statements
George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike
“Every company is deploying agents and asking the same thing: what are agents actually doing?”
George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike
“When a regulator or your board asks what an agent did, saying ‘the model did it’ is not an answer.”
George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike
“Fiddler is the flight recorder for every agent: the observability to explain exactly what an agent did and why.”
George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike
“This level of agent visibility and control enables AI safety.”
Krishna Gade, CEO and co-founder of Fiddler
“We started Fiddler to help enterprises answer a fundamental question: can I trust what my AI agents are doing?”
Krishna Gade, CEO and co-founder of Fiddler
“As AI security and observability converge, enterprises need to understand their agents’ actions, intervene when they go off course, and explain why.”
Krishna Gade, CEO and co-founder of Fiddler
“Joining CrowdStrike lets us deliver that on the world’s leading security platform on a global scale, giving enterprises the confidence to put agents to work in their most critical operations.”
CrowdStrike to Acquire Fiddler to Deliver Agent Observability for AI Trust
Fiddler will bring agent observability to the Falcon platform, so enterprises can see what every agent did, understand why it acted, and prove it stayed within its task
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