Simplified monitoring & observability in GKE

This is how Opcito simplified monitoring and observability in Google Kubernetes engine

Engagement details

The customer is a supply chain and logistics giant with a huge IT infrastructure and applications that involved multiple microservices to cater to its customer base with supply chain-related services. Due to its size, real-time insight gathering, and performance & health monitoring of each microservice got challenging. It got crucial to troubleshoot and locate bugs. There was a need to address resource optimization, ensure cost efficiency, and improve the overall platform performance. Opcito's SecOps experts proposed a comprehensive solution that involved implementing robust monitoring and alerting on a customized GKE dashboard. The alerts were integrated with Slack so that the concerned teams could receive notifications via Slack.

Technologies

• GKE
• Google cloud's operations suite (Stackdriver)
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Slack

Benefits

• Real-time monitoring
• Improved troubleshooting
• Resource optimization
• Proactive issue detection
• Enhanced user experience