This is how Opcito simplified monitoring and observability in Google Kubernetes engine
Engagement details
The customer is a supply chain and logistics giant with a huge IT infrastructure and applications that involved multiple microservices to cater to its customer base with supply chain-related services. Due to its size, real-time insight gathering, and performance & health monitoring of each microservice got challenging. It got crucial to troubleshoot and locate bugs. There was a need to address resource optimization, ensure cost efficiency, and improve the overall platform performance. Opcito's SecOps experts proposed a comprehensive solution that involved implementing robust monitoring and alerting on a customized GKE dashboard. The alerts were integrated with Slack so that the concerned teams could receive notifications via Slack.
Technologies
- GKE
- Google cloud's operations suite (Stackdriver)
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Slack
Benefits
- Real-time monitoring
- Improved troubleshooting
- Resource optimization
- Proactive issue detection
- Enhanced user experience