Case Study
ClearScore Makes the Grade With Instana
The Challenge: Monitoring an Agile Microservices Environment When ClearScore began operations in 2015, the company relied on a simple software stack, which consisted of a single monolithic Java application running on on-premise bare-metal servers. ClearScore’s DevOps engineers were able to monitor this environment using a combination of custom-built monitoring tools based on StatsD, as well as a legacy commercial APM tool. Yet the company’s monitoring needs quickly changed as its software environment grew larger and more complex. It migrated from on-premise infrastructure to virtual servers hosted in the AWS cloud, and the company’s developers used Scala to rewrite its application as a series of microservices hosted using Docker containers. As an emerging Fintech company, ClearScore