We Migrated from StatsD to Prometheus in One Month

Description and use

Mixpanel successfully migrated its entire metrics infrastructure from StatsD to Prometheus within one month, achieving improved observability and reduced operational overhead.

Problem

Mixpanel needed to replace their existing StatsD-based metrics pipeline with Prometheus to improve observability, reduce operational overhead, and align with modern monitoring best practices.

Outcome

Mixpanel successfully migrated its entire metrics infrastructure from StatsD to Prometheus within one month, achieving improved observability and reduced operational overhead. The migration covered all internal services and infrastructure, with Prometheus serving as the new single source of truth for metrics collection, storage, querying, and alerting.

Workflow

• Identified the need to migrate from StatsD to Prometheus for better observability and reduced operational overhead
• Designed the migration plan covering all internal services and infrastructure
• Configured Prometheus scrapers to collect metrics from each service endpoint
• Transitioned metric pipelines so that Prometheus became the single source of truth for metrics
• Validated that all dashboards, alerting rules, and service dependencies continued to work correctly after the switch
• Completed the migration within one month

Evidence

We Migrated from StatsD to Prometheus in One Month

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