Case Study: BlockGen improves mining platform monitoring and logging with Sematext

BlockGen fixes issues before customers notice with Sematext in a few hours

BlockGen, a cryptocurrency mining SaaS platform operating as Stratumsphere, faced significant DevOps challenges monitoring its complex, event-driven infrastructure. With thousands of application containers autoscaling across multiple hosts, their small team struggled to effectively log and diagnose issues from tens of thousands of events per hour. They needed a scalable, agile monitoring and logging solution that would not consume expensive sysadmin time, leading them to evaluate Sematext.

Sematext provided a fast and easy implementation via the Rancher catalog, requiring only the input of tokens to begin streaming data. The solution solved BlockGen's core challenges by enabling accurate diagnosis of bugs and system failures. Using Sematext's custom alert rules and Logsene with Kibana, the team now tracks trends and receives Slack notifications for issues, often resolving them before customers are even aware. This has directly improved the quality and reliability of their Stratumsphere platform.

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