How a leading fintech company running microservices on AWS ECS, accelerated its product engineering efforts with Apica

The company was following a product development strategy that depended on collaboration from external partners in a distributed environment. Product development in such environments requires every collaborator to constantly be on the same page for effective collaboration. Throw in distributed applications into the mix and the need to unify the accumulation of key information and performance metrics and display them in a manner that is well-organized and easy to search and share became even more crucial. 

The company wanted to negate the hassles of developing in distributed environments by using the benefits of unified and centralized logging and analysis to enable internal and external development teams to accelerate their development efforts. The complex documentation and inaccuracies that were present across different versions of their development stack made it tougher to analyse their logs efficiently and derive operational visibility and actionable insights. The complexity of their monitoring stack and relative inaccessibility of log data also meant that they weren’t able to improve operational efficiency and capitalize on optimal resource utilization.

The company also wanted to ensure that external teams that were involved in development and monitoring tasks would only have access to performance metrics and information that were relevant to them.