We Migrated from StatsD to Prometheus in One Month

Description and use

The team migrated from StatsD to Prometheus in one month, enhancing observability and alerting.

Problem

The team needed to replace StatsD with a more scalable, queryable monitoring system.

Outcome

The migration completed in one month, improving metric visibility and alerting while reducing operational overhead.

Workflow

• 1. Identified key metrics and their collection points.
• 2. Implemented Prometheus exporters for existing services.
• 3. Configured Prometheus scrape targets and retention policies.
• 4. Migrated dashboards and alerts from StatsD to Prometheus Grafana panels.
• 5. Decommissioned StatsD infrastructure after validation.

Evidence

We migrated from StatsD to Prometheus in one month

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We identified key metrics and their collection points

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We implemented Prometheus exporters for existing services

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