Case Study: Nielsen achieves cost-controlled, reliable monitoring with Hosted Graphite

Nielsen - Customer Case Study

Nielsen, the global measurement and data analytics company, needed a monitoring solution that could keep up as its Big Data team modernized the stack with Apache Spark and Druid. The team wanted something easy to set up, cost-predictable, scalable, and able to integrate with their existing tools while providing reliable alerting for both infrastructure and application metrics.

Hosted Graphite implemented a simple fix to reduce metric duplication by stripping the changing Spark application ID from metric names, which kept metric counts and costs under control without any code or configuration changes from Nielsen. With Hosted Graphite, Nielsen now has clear dashboards, Slack alerts, and better visibility into traffic, system behavior, and cost drivers, helping the team respond faster to issues and stay within budget with transparent per-metric pricing.

Nielsen

Itai Yaffe

Big Data Developer