At Black Hat USA 2025, where cybersecurity’s brightest come to showcase what’s next, DataBahn.ai is making a sharp entrance with its newly launched Smart Agent for endpoint telemetry collection—and it’s not just another box to check on your compliance to-do list.
This isn’t your typical endpoint agent. The DataBahn Smart Agent aims to solve a long-standing enterprise pain point: agent sprawl. Instead of deploying siloed agents for every security, observability, and IT ops tool in the stack, the Smart Agent offers a unified, cross-functional footprint for telemetry collection—without compromising flexibility or performance.
And for environments where even a lightweight agent is too much? DataBahn’s got that covered too, with its “phantom collector” for agentless deployments.
Why It Matters
Modern enterprise environments are plagued by two conflicting demands: the need for deep telemetry visibility and the burden of tool-specific agents that hog resources, increase complexity, and often create more problems than they solve.
DataBahn’s Smart Agent is a direct response to this. It gives teams the power to deploy, manage, and route telemetry data across platforms, pipelines, and departments—without being locked into any vendor ecosystem.
“Enterprise teams are overwhelmed by agent sprawl, rising compute costs, and fragmented visibility,” said Aditya Sundararam, Chief Product Officer at DataBahn. “Smart Agent reimagines data collection… and empowers security and observability teams with faster insights, fewer blind spots, and seamless cross-team collaboration.”
Key Features That Stand Out
- Unified Telemetry Across Teams
One agent to collect for security, observability, and IT ops—not three. - Flexible Deployment
Choose between a lightweight endpoint agent, a fully agentless phantom collector, or a hybrid setup with centralized data aggregation. - Selective Log Collection
High-performance environments can fine-tune exactly what data is captured—avoiding noisy logs and bloated storage. - Multi-Platform and Vendor-Agnostic
Unlike other “unified” agents tied to proprietary stacks, DataBahn’s tool is built for real-world, multi-vendor environments. - Dynamic Data Routing
Route telemetry intelligently between security pipelines, SIEMs, observability tools, or data lakes—from a single configuration. - Security-Centric Design
Built-in controls include multi-sig authentication, role-based access, and real-time policy enforcement to mitigate risk at the edge.
Not Another Vendor Lock-In
Plenty of vendors claim they’ve unified telemetry, but the fine print often tells a different story—typically a hard tie-in to a single analytics or observability stack. DataBahn is taking the opposite route.
By decoupling data collection from analytics, Smart Agent gives customers freedom to choose how and where to process telemetry—without reshaping their entire infrastructure to fit someone else’s platform.
“Today’s enterprises don’t need another lock-in—they need adaptability by design,” said Sundararam. “We built ours to work across the diverse, multi-platform ecosystems that real-world teams operate in.”
Available Now — and Already Turning Heads
The Smart Agent is available today as part of Smart Edge, DataBahn’s edge telemetry platform, and is currently being demoed at Booth 5512 at Black Hat USA 2025. Existing customers can access the agent immediately, with broader GA rollout expected shortly after the event.
For organizations grappling with ballooning observability costs, security blind spots, and duplicated agent footprints, this release could be a game changer.
Bottom Line
In a landscape where most tools solve narrow problems and introduce new ones, DataBahn’s Smart Agent offers something rare: consolidation without compromise. By supporting both agent-based and agentless deployment, cross-functional telemetry use, and platform-neutral integrations, it might just be the endpoint collector modern enterprises have been waiting for.
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