Grafana Observability Optimizations
May 22, 2025CrowdStrike Computer Science/Mathematics, 2024–25
Liaison(s): Luke Hunter ’03, Thomas Fleming ’22
Advisor(s): Chun Wong
Students(s): Arushi Malik (TL-F), Lauren Parker (TL-S), Kelly Hamamoto, Christopher Nawrocki, Hayley Walters, Valentina Watson
CrowdStrike offers cybersecurity solutions that deliver superior endpoint protection, threat intelligence and rapid incident response. To help maintain a high level of service, the company uses a data visualization system that monitors trillions of metrics, providing real-time observability of performance, speed and service health. The growth of data and metrics has reached a tipping point where the current data visualization system is not used to its full potential. Important metrics have become visually lost, and the process of defining new metrics and service dashboards has become inefficient. To overcome these challenges, this project introduces enhanced functionalities that flag unused metrics, automate dashboard generation, enable simultaneous multi-cloud visualization and enhance overall operational efficiency in the data visualization system.