We wish for an observability tool that treats device telemetry differently from service logs, with tiering that keeps recent high-frequency data hot and compresses the rest automatically. It must run inside our own cloud account with regional residency. We would judge it by cost per device as our fleet grows, query speed on old data, and pricing we can predict.
Fintech · Wealth & Investing · 50–200 · Asia-Pacific #b042_16
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We run an online mutual fund and wealth platform with web and mobile apps backed by event-driven transaction services.
- Industry
- Fintech · Wealth & Investing
- Size
- 50–200 employees
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Tools budget
- $1K–5K per month
- Needs
- APM & distributed tracing. Transactions hop through event streams and microservices, and tracing a stuck order across them is painful.Today: backend teams run queued microservices for transactions, watched via dashboards and log search · Urgency: nowTest automation & QA. With web and mobile apps changing weekly, regression testing lags behind and bugs reach investors.Today: engineers rely on unit and component tests for web and mobile, with no dedicated testers · Urgency: this year
- Who decides
- vp engineering · team trial
- Expects from suppliers
- Tracing that understands event streaming consumers; Test automation for web and cross-platform mobile; Rupee-friendly pricing for mid-sized teams
- Not a fit
- Tools needing a dedicated platform team; Pricing based on total transactions
- Stack
- cloud: AWS-class hyperscaler, CI/CD pipeline in place, Kubernetes
- Buying triggers
- rapid team growth, scaling transaction volume
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