The ELK (Elasticsearch[ES], Logstash and Kibana) stack is an extremely powerful and useful tool for powering search and analytics. At large scale, however, production usage has to balance the attractive parts of it with the concerns that continue to exist. One should keep in mind some issues that exist…

Robinhood server operations is a small team that manages all aspects of running and maintaining the infrastructure behind @RobinhoodApp. We depend heavily on metrics to monitor and troubleshoot production issues.

Tracking Temporal Data at Robinhood

At Robinhood, accounting is a central part of our business. Properly tracking an account’s value…

In the previous post, we described our monitoring and alerting setup, and how Riemann fits into the mix. In the final post of this series, we will explain our Riemann setup, and go over how our engineers use it. This post assumes that…

In the previous post we discussed the setup of our metrics collection and visualization pipeline. In this post, we will go over our alerting and monitoring setup. We will start off with an overview of the common approaches…