Case Study: Bloomberg tracks billions of data points daily with Grafana

How Bloomberg Tracks Hundreds of Billions of Data Points Daily With Metrictank and Grafana

Bloomberg, a global financial media and data company, needed a more reliable way to monitor its massive Bloomberg Terminal infrastructure after a few high-profile outages. To support 5,500 engineers and track billions of daily data points, the company turned to Grafana and Metrictank to centralize telemetry, alerts, and dashboards across its environment.

With Grafana, Bloomberg built a unified observability platform for metrics, logs, alerts, and traces, while Metrictank helped manage high-cardinality time series and retention rules. Working with Grafana, Bloomberg also implemented speculative querying and native Metrictank functions, cutting daily report runtimes from two days to four hours and then to about 90 minutes, while improving alert correlation and dashboard discoverability across 3,500+ dashboards.

Bloomberg

Stig Sorenson

Head of Production Visibility Group