Case Study: Space Ape Games achieves scale to millions of players and 300% monitoring capacity with VMware Tanzu

Wavefront Helps Space Ape Scale Their Mobile Games to Millions of Players

Space Ape Games, an award-winning mobile studio behind hits like Samurai Siege (15M+ downloads) and Rival Kingdoms, faced a monitoring crisis as their games scaled to millions of players. Their incumbent monitoring platform couldn’t handle the volume or variety of metrics they needed, and scaling it was manual and costly, so they sought a partner that could grow with their ambitions.

They migrated to Wavefront’s real‑time analytics platform, building custom events, alerts and using advanced statistical queries to analyze trends and diagnose faults quickly. Wavefront seamlessly expanded monitoring capacity by 300% ahead of Rival Kingdoms’ launch, helping prioritize issues, provide rapid operational insight into recent and historical data, and give Space Ape confidence that monitoring will scale with future games.

Space Ape Games

Nic Walker

Head of Technical Operations