SignalFx just announced a $75m dollar round of financing, bringing their total raise to date to $179m. This is an impressive war chest that allows SignalFx to continue it mission of bringing next generation Cloud Monitoring to large enterprises.

In this DevOps Chat we sat down with SignalFx CEO and co-founder, Karthik Rau to discuss what were the big trends he and the team bet on early in SignalFx's development which have allowed them to capitalize on the opportunity in the cloud monitoring market. Karthik also gives us his vision for where the market is heading and what SignalFx is going to use these funds for to stay at the forefront. Congrats to Karthik and the SignalFx team.