Case Study: eBay simplifies monitoring and speeds dashboard creation with Grafana

How eBay Moved From Custom UIs to Grafana Plugins

eBay’s logging and monitoring team needed a better way to help developers instrument applications and create reliable dashboards for logs and metrics. Their custom UIs were inconsistent and hard to maintain, and building new graphs was so painful that one engineer created an early proof of concept using Grafana, which initially worked only as a rough hack.

Grafana helped eBay turn that experiment into a full data source plugin and hosted monitoring solution, with support for annotations, authentication, logs, events, and more cloud-native metric collection. As eBay moved away from custom APIs and UI builds toward Grafana and Prometheus-based workflows, dashboard creation became much easier, new use cases were onboarded, and the team said even a custom data source plugin could be built in a day.

eBay

Vijay Samuel

Member of the Monitoring Team