Chronosphere: How Snap Increased Observability Reliability and Improved Developer Experience

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As they scaled, Snap Inc’s in-house, open-source observability solution was getting expensive and time-consuming for engineers to realistically manage as the company saw massive user growth. They encountered three main challenges when it came to observability: availability, scalability, and usability.  

Learn how Snap has experienced the following benefits after transitioning to Chronosphere:

  • 99.9% uptime of the observability stack
  • Reduced costs by reducing data volumes by more than 50%
  • Reduced on-call pages by more than 90%
  • Scale their observability solution 5x – from 50 million time series to 250+ million time series