Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Tally Group, a global energy SaaS company headquartered in Melbourne, had grown beyond what their fragmented monitoring stack could handle — four isolated tools, no application visibility, and alert storms slowing every incident response. In this session, Senior DevOps Engineer John Bulauan walks through how Tally migrated to Grafana Cloud in six weeks, achieving end-to-end observability across metrics, logs, traces, synthetics, and IRM — and shifting from reactive to proactive operations.
**Key Chapters:**
- 0:00 — Introduction and speaker background
- 0:56 — About Tally Group and the growth challenge
- 2:14 — The fragmented monitoring problem
- 3:27 — Incident management and cost impact
- 4:34 — Performance visibility gaps
- 6:01 — Defining requirements and migration approach
- 7:22 — Phase 1: Pilot
- 8:18 — Phase 2: Implementation
- 9:33 — IRM integration and mobile app
- 11:02 — Partner DNX and six-week delivery
- 11:24 — Decommission and cutover
- 12:40 — How Grafana looks at Tally today
- 13:41 — Application Observability and Alloy
- 14:36 — Synthetic checks and automation
- 15:37 — API Gateway and database dashboards
- 16:31 — Results, wins, and key learnings
- 18:35 — What's next: K6, AI Assistant, multi-cloud
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Tally Group, a global energy SaaS company headquartered in Melbourne, had grown beyond what their fragmented monitoring stack could handle — four isolated tools, no application visibility, and alert storms slowing every incident response. In this session, Senior DevOps Engineer John Bulauan walks through how Tally migrated to Grafana Cloud in six weeks, achieving end-to-end observability across metrics, logs, traces, synthetics, and IRM — and shifting from reactive to proactive operations.
**Key Chapters:**
- 0:00 — Introduction and speaker background
- 0:56 — About Tally Group and the growth challenge
- 2:14 — The fragmented monitoring problem
- 3:27 — Incident management and cost impact
- 4:34 — Performance visibility gaps
- 6:01 — Defining requirements and migration approach
- 7:22 — Phase 1: Pilot
- 8:18 — Phase 2: Implementation
- 9:33 — IRM integration and mobile app
- 11:02 — Partner DNX and six-week delivery
- 11:24 — Decommission and cutover
- 12:40 — How Grafana looks at Tally today
- 13:41 — Application Observability and Alloy
- 14:36 — Synthetic checks and automation
- 15:37 — API Gateway and database dashboards
- 16:31 — Results, wins, and key learnings
- 18:35 — What's next: K6, AI Assistant, multi-cloud
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LinkedIn: (linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs/)
Facebook: (facebook.com/grafana)
#Grafana #Observability
