Case Study: GameChanger achieves real-time, scalable cloud monitoring with Datadog

Monitoring a Complex and Elastically Scaling Cloud Infrastructure to Avoid Performance Issues

Game Changer, the company behind a popular sports scoring app and real-time web and mobile updates, needed a better way to monitor its complex, elastically scaling AWS infrastructure. Its in-house Graphite and StatsD tools were costly to run and took significant engineering time to maintain, making it difficult to quickly spot and troubleshoot performance issues across databases, APIs, and services.

Datadog provided a turnkey monitoring solution that integrated quickly with AWS, MongoDB, StatsD, Redis, and other systems, with dashboards and alerts set up in a day. With Datadog, Game Changer gained live process tracking, faster root-cause analysis, and easier custom alerting, reducing monitoring overhead and freeing engineers to focus more on the product instead of infrastructure.

Game Changer

Kiril Savino

Chief Technology Officer