How the LGTM Stack changed the observability culture at Wise Payments
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Wise migrates its observability to the Grafana LGTM Stack, replacing a patchwork (Prometheus/Thanos, Elasticsearch, Jaeger, Alertmanager) with Mimir, Tempo, Loki on S3 backends, cutting a 15‑UI mess into a unified surface. The team builds a vendor‑style platform with endpoints that let services ship telemetry and drop lead time to observable, measures SLOs to prove value, and sees daily data growth at ~2x year‑over‑year while supporting 16M customers and £9B/month volume. migrate Thanos→Mimir and single pane of glass.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introductions
- 0:43About Wise Payments
- 1:42Wise Payments' architecture evolution
- 4:44The challenges that needed to be addressed
- 7:17Wise Payments' thought process in selecting a new approach
- 10:53Building a true platform for Wise Payments' engineers
- 14:37Measuring value
- 16:10Creating a great user experience for engineers
- 17:50What's next? Thinking about the future of observability at Wise Payments
- 20:25Excitement around future Grafana offerings
- 23:21Learn more about Wise Payments' engineering team
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