Case Study: Simbe achieves faster robot debugging and fleet-scale observability with Foxglove

How Simbe leverages Foxglove to scale across thousands of retail locations globally

Simbe, a robotics company that provides retail automation, faced significant challenges in managing and analyzing data from its fleet of Tally robots. The team relied on a cumbersome workflow of manually transferring large data files and juggling multiple specialized visualization tools, which slowed down debugging and hampered collaboration, especially in a remote work environment.

By implementing Foxglove's data visualization platform, Simbe streamlined its entire debugging process. The solution enabled web-based playback of robot data from any device and provided synchronized visualizations, eliminating the need for manual file transfers and multiple tools. This resulted in a 90% reduction in the time to access data, a 4x reduction in the number of tools needed, and greatly reduced escalations from their operations team to engineering. Foxglove democratized access to robot data across the entire company, significantly improving cross-team collaboration and problem-solving efficiency.

Simbe

Mirza A. Shah

Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder