Case Study: Dish Network improves uptime and real-time monitoring with Grafana and Grafana Loki

How to improve uptime with real-time monitoring, Grafana dashboards, and Grafana Loki Inside Dish Network's observability stack

Dish Network, a provider of satellite TV, wireless, and 5G services, needed better real-time visibility into the health and performance of its mission-critical earth station and satellite communications equipment. To close the gap in uptime and replace slow, manual data collection and post-event analysis, Dish Network turned to Grafana dashboards, Grafana Alerting, and Grafana Loki.

With Grafana, Dish Network built real-time dashboards and alerts for antenna performance, transmitter status, weather, server health, and log data, while Grafana Loki helped them analyze debug and SNMP trap logs. The result was faster issue detection and response, reduced guesswork around faults, easier collaboration, and the ability to create mission-specific dashboards in minutes, helping Dish Network improve already strong uptime and operate more efficiently.

Dish Network

Ted Raymond

Systems Administrator Engineer