Case Study: DigitalOcean achieves shared, cost-effective metrics visualization with Grafana

DigitalOcean Gains New Insight with Visualizations Shared Across Teams

DigitalOcean, the cloud infrastructure provider, needed a better way to manage metrics visualization across multiple teams. Its teams were using a mix of outdated in-house graphing tools, complex systems, and an expensive third-party service, making it hard to share dashboards and diagnose issues efficiently. They turned to Grafana to simplify and unify time-series metrics visualization and dashboarding.

With Grafana, DigitalOcean consolidated its graphing and dashboarding across teams, integrated directly with Prometheus, and made it easy for support and platform teams to share snapshots and inspect server metrics. The result was better collaboration, beautiful customer-facing graphs, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost savings by off-loading metric storage. Grafana also helped democratize access to metrics, so more teams could build dashboards and use the data in one place.

DigitalOcean

David Byrd

Product Manager