Case Study: ClearScore achieves automated, context-aware microservices monitoring with IBM Instana

ClearScore Makes the Grade With Instana

ClearScore, an emerging Fintech, faced growing pains as it moved from a single monolithic Java app to a Docker-based microservices architecture (about 15 microservices across ~200 containers). The company’s legacy APM and custom StatsD tools couldn’t handle the complexity or Scala stack, so ClearScore adopted IBM Instana’s application monitoring solution to gain native microservices- and container-aware observability.

IBM Instana delivered automated, context-aware monitoring that slashed the manual configuration burden on ClearScore’s DevOps team, reduced false positives, and surfaced actionable alerts faster than the previous tool. Instana is now deployed across development, staging and production, giving ClearScore holistic visibility and enabling plans to extend end-user and database monitoring while streamlining ongoing DevOps and performance improvements.

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Barry Laffoy

DevOps Engineer