Namely Employs SignalFx to Enable Observability and Engineering Productivity
Executive Summary
Namely is an all-in-one HR solution with data-driven analytics that gives companies incredible insight into how to best manage their people. Since reliability is a critical requirement for HR solutions, Namely needed a monitoring tool that would help ensure its clients experienced seamless performance while processing essential payroll, benefits, HR and time management transactions.
SignalFx provides Namely with real-time monitoring across its advanced microservices architecture. This has allowed Namely to:
- Accelerate product development with confidence
- Develop more advanced features
- Focus the engineering team on enhancements to the Namely platform, providing its clients with a first-class product for building better workplaces
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- Needed a tool that could support Namely’s complex microservices environment, including containers, Kubernetes and Istio
- Required up-to-the second insight into the health of its systems to ensure the reliability and performance of the Namely platform
- Ensure optimal developer productivity
- Accelerated product development because the engineering team can trust the changes they are making to improve their systems
- Developed more advanced features and delivers even better experiences for its clients by easily identifying and taking action on opportunities for performance enhancements
- Focused the engineering team on Namely’s core mission — helping its clients build better workplaces — instead of infrastructure-related concerns
- Supported the adoption of modern technologies like containers, Kubernetes and Istio through real-time monitoring of these ephemeral environments
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Istio
- Prometheus
- StatsD
- OpenTracing