Bazaarvoice was in need of a monitoring solution that can support their evolving and decentralized approach to development. Scaling their existing monitoring systems would have required each team to not only host and manage their own observability tools, but also learn specific domain expertise in infrastructure monitoring. Bazaarvoice was already using a number of different monitoring solutions on their legacy systems. Scaling the existing monitoring systems would have required each team to not only run their own monitoring server, but also, to learn specific domain expertise in infrastructure monitoring. For Bazaarvoice, this would have involved more than 50 different monitoring servers, each with their own custom setup, metrics, and naming conventions. Maintaining easy and effective operations on such a disjointed system would have been nearly impossible for a team that was doubling in size every 6 to 9 months. Bazaarvoice required a monitoring solution that could support their evolving and decentralized approach to development.

As HATech scaled, they faced a challenge in managing and supporting a rapidly expanding pool of customers, especially those releasing changes to their software every few hours. Without an automated monitoring platform, they could not see into their customers’ infrastructure, and they were blind to potential problems. They needed a way to receive immediate alerts about any issues, and they needed real-time, detailed data to support rapid troubleshooting, even as customers’ infrastructure evolved day by day. They began a deep and thorough search for a monitoring platform that was fast, reliable, required no infrastructure management, offered flexibility to create custom add-ons, agents, and plug-ins, and was affordable.