Summary
ShuttleCloud, a company that facilitates email and contact data importing for providers like Google and Comcast, initially relied on a fragmented monitoring system using scripts, Pingdom, and Ducksboard. As their business grew and SLAs became more demanding, they needed a centralized solution, leading them to test Prometheus. They chose Prometheus for its flexibility in adding metrics, powerful querying with labels, ease of installation, and integration with their existing DNS service – ultimately using it to monitor both system and business-critical metrics with alerts via Alertmanager and visualizations in Grafana.