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Achieving Operational Visibility for all Development Teams

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
Applicable Industries	E-Commerce
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Real-Time Location System (RTLS) Supply Chain Visibility
Services	System Integration Data Science Services
Challenge	MercadoLibre, the largest online marketplace in Latin America, was facing challenges with visibility into their distributed applications and dynamic hybrid cloud infrastructure. They had been using various open source tools to monitor their framework, but these disparate solutions made it difficult and time-consuming for them to correlate telemetry data from across their stack. The constant changes being made by separate teams in a shared hybrid cloud environment proved to be too dynamic for these basic monitoring tools to handle. They needed a tool that was purpose-built for monitoring multiple applications in a dynamic hybrid cloud infrastructure. Read More
About Customer	MercadoLibre is the largest online marketplace in Latin America, offering a wide range of digital solutions for e-commerce, payments, and advertising. The company was established in 1999 in Argentina and now operates in 12 additional countries. MercadoLibre continuously seeks to expand and improve its environment. Each application is handled by a team that has total responsibility for its development and operation. In total, they have some 600 developers who are constantly creating new applications and enhancing existing ones. Read More
Solution	MercadoLibre chose Datadog's monitoring solutions to gain better visibility into their distributed applications and dynamic hybrid cloud infrastructure. Datadog's turn-key integrations enabled MercadoLibre to automatically correlate metrics from across their dynamic and distributed system, which allowed their development teams to focus their energy on building and releasing new features in order to maximize performance. Most of the development teams are now taking advantage of the ways Datadog enables developers to collect custom metrics from the applications they’re working on using the open-source tool StatsD or via API. With 600 applications running on 15,000 VMs, the potential for interactions between application components and underlying infrastructure is enormous. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Applicable Industries

E-Commerce

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Supply Chain Visibility

Services

System Integration

Data Science Services

Challenge

MercadoLibre, the largest online marketplace in Latin America, was facing challenges with visibility into their distributed applications and dynamic hybrid cloud infrastructure. They had been using various open source tools to monitor their framework, but these disparate solutions made it difficult and time-consuming for them to correlate telemetry data from across their stack. The constant changes being made by separate teams in a shared hybrid cloud environment proved to be too dynamic for these basic monitoring tools to handle. They needed a tool that was purpose-built for monitoring multiple applications in a dynamic hybrid cloud infrastructure.

About Customer

MercadoLibre is the largest online marketplace in Latin America, offering a wide range of digital solutions for e-commerce, payments, and advertising. The company was established in 1999 in Argentina and now operates in 12 additional countries. MercadoLibre continuously seeks to expand and improve its environment. Each application is handled by a team that has total responsibility for its development and operation. In total, they have some 600 developers who are constantly creating new applications and enhancing existing ones.

Solution

MercadoLibre chose Datadog's monitoring solutions to gain better visibility into their distributed applications and dynamic hybrid cloud infrastructure. Datadog's turn-key integrations enabled MercadoLibre to automatically correlate metrics from across their dynamic and distributed system, which allowed their development teams to focus their energy on building and releasing new features in order to maximize performance. Most of the development teams are now taking advantage of the ways Datadog enables developers to collect custom metrics from the applications they’re working on using the open-source tool StatsD or via API. With 600 applications running on 15,000 VMs, the potential for interactions between application components and underlying infrastructure is enormous.

Impact #1	Improved troubleshooting speed and accuracy, especially for complex interactions that can be difficult to troubleshoot.
Impact #2	Datadog has been able to handle the breadth and depth of the data being gathered, providing confidence that the system will be able to scale along with MercadoLibre's infrastructure.
Impact #3	Datadog provides visibility into how applications from one development team are affecting those of other teams, improving collaboration.

Impact #1

Improved troubleshooting speed and accuracy, especially for complex interactions that can be difficult to troubleshoot.

Impact #2

Datadog has been able to handle the breadth and depth of the data being gathered, providing confidence that the system will be able to scale along with MercadoLibre's infrastructure.

Impact #3

Datadog provides visibility into how applications from one development team are affecting those of other teams, improving collaboration.

Benefit #1	600 applications running on 15,000 VMs are now monitored effectively.
Benefit #2	Improved performance across the entire hybrid cloud.

Benefit #1

600 applications running on 15,000 VMs are now monitored effectively.

Benefit #2

Improved performance across the entire hybrid cloud.

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Achieving Operational Visibility for all Development Teams

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