Case Study: Sonos achieves 50% CI cost reduction with Datadog CI Pipeline Visibility

Sonos reduces CI costs by 50 percent with Datadog CI Pipeline Visibility

Sonos, the audio technology company behind multi-room wireless home systems used by millions, faced a growing CI challenge: managing roughly 2,000 Jenkins jobs daily across complex build, test, and deploy cycles. Debugging failures and identifying root causes across that volume of test runs was slow and fragmented, often leaving teams—especially in the EU—waiting up to a day for CI feedback and relying on manual trackers and spreadsheets.

By adopting Datadog CI Pipeline Visibility, Sonos gained a single pane for real-time CI, test, and infrastructure monitoring, enabling instant failure diagnosis, daily SLOs, and better orchestration of Jenkins across its environment. The result: time-to-results improved from about a day to near real-time, GKE costs fell by roughly 50% through workload optimization, and teams now get daily insights into execution, queue, and blocked time to drive ongoing infrastructure and tooling improvements.

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Sesha Gudimella

Senior Manager, Software Development