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SPS Commerce Accelerates Development Agility with Kubernetes Monitoring

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries	Retail
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases	Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	SPS Commerce is a leader in providing cloud-based supply chain management software to retailers, suppliers, third-party logistics providers, and partners. With the world’s largest retail network, SPS connects over 75,000 organizations in the retail industry together, handling more than $2 billion in gross merchandise value each day. At the heart of its operations are 800 servers in production across multiple data centers. SPS must manage, monitor, and troubleshoot hundreds of applications on those servers, and required an agile, scalable monitoring solution. Like many organizations, SPS is also adopting containers and Kubernetes container orchestration in production to drive more cost savings and accelerate development. To unlock the full potential of containers, they needed a solution that could also offer monitoring for Kubernetes clusters and the applications running within them. Read More
About Customer	SPS Commerce is a leading provider of cloud-based supply chain management software. The company has been in operation since 2001 and has helped thousands of companies replace manual, time-intensive processes with automation. SPS Commerce operates the world's largest retail network, connecting over 75,000 organizations in the retail industry. The company handles more than $2 billion in gross merchandise value each day. At the core of its operations are 800 servers in production across multiple data centers. SPS Commerce manages, monitors, and troubleshoots hundreds of applications on these servers. Read More
Solution	After evaluating and analyzing a variety of monitoring solutions, SPS Commerce deployed LogicMonitor. It provides automated hybrid infrastructure monitoring and analytics, enabling SPS to monitor, alert and report on the health of its entire IT environment. SPS shares the information from LogicMonitor across the company, giving more than 1,000 employees full visibility into the real-time performance of its cloud services. To get visibility into Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications, SPS utilizes LogicMonitor Kubernetes Monitoring. LogicMonitor provides a lightweight app that runs as a pod in the Kubernetes cluster. It listens to the Kubernetes event stream and uses a LogicMonitor API to add cluster resources (nodes, pods, containers, and services) into LogicMonitor to be monitored. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms

Applicable Industries

Retail

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

SPS Commerce is a leader in providing cloud-based supply chain management software to retailers, suppliers, third-party logistics providers, and partners. With the world’s largest retail network, SPS connects over 75,000 organizations in the retail industry together, handling more than $2 billion in gross merchandise value each day. At the heart of its operations are 800 servers in production across multiple data centers. SPS must manage, monitor, and troubleshoot hundreds of applications on those servers, and required an agile, scalable monitoring solution. Like many organizations, SPS is also adopting containers and Kubernetes container orchestration in production to drive more cost savings and accelerate development. To unlock the full potential of containers, they needed a solution that could also offer monitoring for Kubernetes clusters and the applications running within them.

About Customer

SPS Commerce is a leading provider of cloud-based supply chain management software. The company has been in operation since 2001 and has helped thousands of companies replace manual, time-intensive processes with automation. SPS Commerce operates the world's largest retail network, connecting over 75,000 organizations in the retail industry. The company handles more than $2 billion in gross merchandise value each day. At the core of its operations are 800 servers in production across multiple data centers. SPS Commerce manages, monitors, and troubleshoots hundreds of applications on these servers.

Solution

After evaluating and analyzing a variety of monitoring solutions, SPS Commerce deployed LogicMonitor. It provides automated hybrid infrastructure monitoring and analytics, enabling SPS to monitor, alert and report on the health of its entire IT environment. SPS shares the information from LogicMonitor across the company, giving more than 1,000 employees full visibility into the real-time performance of its cloud services. To get visibility into Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications, SPS utilizes LogicMonitor Kubernetes Monitoring. LogicMonitor provides a lightweight app that runs as a pod in the Kubernetes cluster. It listens to the Kubernetes event stream and uses a LogicMonitor API to add cluster resources (nodes, pods, containers, and services) into LogicMonitor to be monitored.

Impact #1	Better resource utilization opens up more time for IT to focus on long-term strategic initiatives
Impact #2	Kubernetes monitoring delivers fast, intuitive insight into the health of container applications and services
Impact #3	Accelerated adoption of container services provides a platform for innovation and agility

Impact #1

Better resource utilization opens up more time for IT to focus on long-term strategic initiatives

Impact #2

Kubernetes monitoring delivers fast, intuitive insight into the health of container applications and services

Impact #3

Accelerated adoption of container services provides a platform for innovation and agility

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SPS Commerce Accelerates Development Agility with Kubernetes Monitoring

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