Case Study: Nielsen achieves better monitoring and cost control with MetricFire Hosted Graphite

Nielsen - Customer Case Study

Nielsen, the global data analytics company, used MetricFire’s Hosted Graphite to monitor the systems behind Nielsen Marketing Cloud as its big data stack grew more complex. The Big Data team needed a monitoring tool that was easy to set up, integrated with Spark and Druid, offered transparent pricing, scaled reliably, and included dependable alerting without adding maintenance overhead.

MetricFire helped solve the team’s cost concern by removing the application ID from incoming Spark metric names, preventing duplicate time series and keeping metric counts under control without any code changes. With MetricFire’s Hosted Graphite, Nielsen gained deeper visibility into infrastructure and application behavior, relied on Slack alerts to catch issues early, and used dashboards and metric treemaps to track traffic and cost drivers with confidence and predictable billing.

Nielsen

Itai Yaffe

Big Data Developer