Case Study: Workday achieves metrics-driven monitoring excellence and faster releases with VMware Tanzu (Wavefront)

Workday Rides the Metrics Wave, Cruises to Wavefront’s Customer Excellence Award

Workday, a leading SaaS provider of HR and financial management applications, needed to strengthen its monitoring to help developers get code into production faster. Its Platform Engineering team was already improving alerting and logging but lacked a low-effort, scalable metrics solution that wouldn’t consume scarce engineering cycles.

Wavefront delivered an “effort-free” metrics pane of glass—easy ingestion, unified dashboards, query-driven analytics and smarter alerts—backed by responsive support and high reliability. The service was rapidly adopted by over 700 developers, improved early detection of customer-impacting issues, and helped enable Workday’s move toward self-service metrics, earning Wavefront recognition with its Customer Excellence Award.

Workday

Catherine Renwick

VP Platform Engineering