Case Study: Genius Sports achieves faster development and high availability with Chronosphere

Genius Sports Improving Development Speed While Ensuring High Availability

Genius Sports, a high-volume sports data company, faced constant metrics data loss and visibility gaps as it moved services to the cloud—mixing Prometheus in EKS with a legacy Graphite/StatsD setup that strained speed, scale and developer time. Seeking a hosted, Grafana-compatible monitoring solution that supported StatsD and Prometheus and offered easy migration, Genius Sports piloted and then adopted Chronosphere’s hosted monitoring-as-a-service.

Chronosphere provided a fully hosted, cloud-native monitoring platform that consolidated metrics, abstracted onboarding and replaced data-center appliances. After a one-month pilot, Chronosphere was expanded across teams, eliminating reliance on on-prem monitoring, restoring consistent visibility to reduce outage resolution time, enabling application-level alerting and cutting developer overhead (previously costing one to two developer days in some sprints), allowing engineers to move faster and ship with greater confidence.

Genius Sports

Luke Fieldsend

DevOps Team Lead