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Date Published
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Lauren Johnson
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682
Language
English
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Summary

TomTom, a leader in location technology, has significantly enhanced its developer experience by integrating Grafana Cloud, as shared by Site Reliability Engineer Carl Meert at ObservabilityCon 2021. The implementation has facilitated a reduction in Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) and improved service visibility, addressing previous challenges of disparate monitoring tools and unshareable data across teams. By consolidating various business metrics into Grafana dashboards, TomTom achieved a comprehensive end-to-end view of their services, aiding in incident management and SLA tracking. This visibility has been further enhanced by introducing weekly technical operational reviews that promote collaboration and knowledge sharing among engineers. Additionally, the team has embraced synthetic monitoring to ensure full visibility across their services, and they are actively exploring new functionalities such as distributed tracing with Grafana Tempo. The transition to Grafana Cloud has not only fostered an observability-centric culture but also opened avenues for future advancements in incident response and data integration.