Brian Brazil

Interview with Hostinger

Hostinger, a hosting company with 30 million clients, transitioned from a Nagios/Cacti/Ganglia monitoring stack to Prometheus in 2015 to improve automation and scalability. This sw…

Interview with Presslabs

Presslabs, a managed WordPress hosting platform handling up to 2 billion pageviews monthly, transitioned to Prometheus for monitoring after struggling with the speed and maintenanc…

Interview with Datawire

Datawire, a company building tools for Kubernetes development, transitioned from AWS CloudWatch to Prometheus to gain more flexibility and engineer-level control over their monitor…

Interview with Scalefastr

Scalefastr, a new cloud platform built on open-source technologies like Kubernetes and Prometheus, switched to Prometheus for monitoring due to its scalability, readily available e…

Interview with L’Atelier Animation

L’Atelier Animation, a 3D animation studio, transitioned from a complex monitoring system using Nagios, Graphite, and InfluxDB to Prometheus to better monitor their large infrastru…

Interview with iAdvize

iAdvize, a conversational commerce platform, replaced their traditional Nagios and Centreon monitoring with Prometheus to gain better control and flexibility as they transitioned t…

Interview with Europace

Europace, a large German financial marketplace, transitioned from Nagios/Icinga to Prometheus to address scalability issues and empower their DevOps teams with more ownership of mo…

Interview with Weaveworks

Weaveworks, a microservices operationalization service, chose Prometheus for monitoring due to their team's prior experience with similar systems and its natural fit with their Kub…

Interview with Canonical

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is transitioning from a monitoring stack of Nagios, Graphite, and in-house tools to Prometheus due to its simplicity, power, and ability to co…

Interview with JustWatch

JustWatch is a streaming search engine with a rapidly growing international presence, operating a microservices architecture with a small engineering team. They transitioned to Pro…

Interview with Compose

Compose, a database-as-a-service provider, transitioned from Graphite and InfluxDB to Prometheus due to issues with scalability, data corruption, and unfulfilled feature promises. …

Interview with DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean transitioned from Graphite/OpenTSDB to Prometheus due to difficulties managing OpenTSDB’s scalability and frustrations with its query language and visualization tools.…