If you’ve ever worked with complex high-load cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure, you probably understand how important it is to have an appropriate monitoring system.

Unfortunately, there aren’t always ready-made solutions that can guarantee the proper coverage of all required metrics and provide the option for extra customization. Eventually, if you find them, they will likely cost your company a fortune, particularly if you have a complex multicomponent infrastructure.

First, here’s a few words about the company and why we’ve implemented this solution, which will give you a better understanding of what we’re dealing with.

Wirex’s entire platform is hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud. We have a complex multicomponent infrastructure with thousands of transactions and a million events each day. As a fintech product with 3.5 million clients, our platform uses cryptocurrencies in addition to traditional currencies, so we can’t allow customers to experience any difficulties during transactions or any delays when exchanging currencies. This imposes certain risks and challenges which means it requires specific monitoring systems that need to be more advanced and dynamic.

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