Case Study: Tracr achieves unified Kubernetes observability with groundcover

Tracr Enhances Kubernetes Observability with eBPF Tracing

Tracr, a blockchain-based platform for diamond traceability, faced significant monitoring blind spots in its Kubernetes-based AWS infrastructure. Their legacy observability stack, which relied on Elastic Cloud and self-hosted Prometheus, provided only partial coverage. The complexity of manual code instrumentation for tracing created gaps in visibility, and cost concerns forced them to limit their monitoring scope. This made it difficult to proactively detect issues and ensure the high reliability required for their production-grade blockchain environment. They turned to groundcover for a solution.

By implementing groundcover, Tracr leveraged its eBPF-powered auto-instrumentation to gain immediate, comprehensive tracing without costly development effort. The solution provided deep Kubernetes-native observability and a cost-effective self-hosted model. As a result, Tracr achieved unparalleled visibility into its infrastructure, allowing for proactive issue resolution and improved blockchain reliability. groundcover also democratized observability across the organization, enabling teams from DevOps to QA to collaborate more effectively using a unified platform for logs, metrics, and traces.

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Kristian Lee

DevOps Lead