Case Study: Blue State Digital achieves scalable, automated monitoring and 92% faster alert setup with Datadog

Monitoring Scales Alongside Blue State Digital’s Rapidly Growing Infrastructure

Blue State Digital (BSD) is a media strategy and technology firm that powers online fundraising, advocacy and political campaigns. As BSD’s multi‑tier stack (Linux, PHP, MySQL, RabbitMQ, HAProxy, ElasticSearch) and AWS footprint grew, their StatsD/Graphite monitoring required manual instrumentation and alerting that couldn’t keep pace with automated provisioning and much higher data volumes.

BSD implemented Datadog for its out‑of‑the‑box integrations, Chef automation, and StatsD compatibility, plus tagging, Timeline view and PagerDuty linkage to streamline operations. The change delivered rapid time‑to‑value and seamless scaling: alert setup time dropped by 92% (what used to take an hour now takes five minutes), manual querying/aggregation was eliminated, and teams could refocus on building applications.

Blue State Digital

Joel Barciauskas

Director of Platform, Blue State Digital