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 monitoring infrastructure. They chose Prometheus—and specifically the Prometheus Operator—because it empowered individual teams to customize monitoring without relying on a central operations team and benefited from a strong community ecosystem. Since the switch, Datawire has gained valuable insights into L7 traffic and improved confidence in their deployments through metric comparisons.