The AdRoll Monitoring Evolution: From flying blind to flying by instrument

In the early days of a dev project, you can get away with using your intuition to make decisions, as the impact on performance is likely minimal. However, as the project gets more complex, its behavior is much harder to predict. Without proper monitoring, making technical decisions becomes very risky since you don’t know how things were and won’t know if you improved things or made it worse.

In this webinar, Brian Troutwine, Senior Software Engineer at AdRoll, walks through how AdRoll grew to making technical decisions based on full visibility of their infrastructure using AWS and Datadog monitoring.

Brian is joined by Matt Williams, Datadog’s Evangelist and Brandon Chavis, Solutions Architect at AWS. Together, they cover how to:
- Use AWS CloudWatch metrics to understand the basic health of your system
- Correlate OS and application metrics with CloudWatch metrics to gain full visibility into AWS environments
- Use tags to make monitoring 1000+ hosts with hundreds of metrics each easier and more effective
- Create tailored alerts for services or individual devices to help stay on top of large AWS environments