Case Study: Slickdeals simplifies infrastructure monitoring with MetricFire

Slickdeals cuts monitoring setup time after a 4-week in-house effort with MetricFire

Slickdeals, a community-based website and app that helps shoppers find deals, was facing a daunting monitoring challenge as their business grew. Their in-house solution using StatsD, Graphite, and Grafana was consuming too much time and resources, especially during an AWS migration and personnel changes. The team needed to offload monitoring to a hosted solution that was cost-effective and not overly complex. They chose MetricFire's Hosted Graphite service to meet this need.

MetricFire provided Slickdeals with a simple, focused solution using Hosted Graphite, Hosted Grafana, and Hosted StatsD. This allowed the team to seamlessly ingest data, build dashboards and alerts, and confirm the platform's fit through a load test before committing. As a result, Slickdeals saved significant engineering time that was previously spent on building and maintaining their own monitoring infrastructure. This enabled their team to focus on other critical projects that directly improved their business.

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