Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Brad Oyler, Engineering Manager at Gopuff, shares how the instant commerce platform cut observability costs 40% by migrating to Grafana Cloud. Learn how they used Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Alloy, and Adaptive Telemetry to scale 500+ microservices across three clouds and how standardized, open-source telemetry is now the foundation for their AI-driven SRE roadmap. From alert fatigue to actionable insights, this is observability done right.
Key Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction & Gopuff overview
01:18 – The “Observability Tax”: costs doubling, insights flat
03:10 – Choosing Grafana: open-source roots and “exit ramp”
05:02 – The LGTM stack as Gopuff's "Nervous System"
07:24 – Adaptive Telemetry and cardinality at scale
09:32 – K6 Operator: proactive stress testing before traffic spikes
11:18 – Unlocking 40% cost reduction
13:02 – From alert fatigue to actionable insights
14:40 – What’s Next: AI-driven infrastructure
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Brad Oyler, Engineering Manager at Gopuff, shares how the instant commerce platform cut observability costs 40% by migrating to Grafana Cloud. Learn how they used Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Alloy, and Adaptive Telemetry to scale 500+ microservices across three clouds and how standardized, open-source telemetry is now the foundation for their AI-driven SRE roadmap. From alert fatigue to actionable insights, this is observability done right.
Key Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction & Gopuff overview
01:18 – The “Observability Tax”: costs doubling, insights flat
03:10 – Choosing Grafana: open-source roots and “exit ramp”
05:02 – The LGTM stack as Gopuff's "Nervous System"
07:24 – Adaptive Telemetry and cardinality at scale
09:32 – K6 Operator: proactive stress testing before traffic spikes
11:18 – Unlocking 40% cost reduction
13:02 – From alert fatigue to actionable insights
14:40 – What’s Next: AI-driven infrastructure
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Connect with Grafana Labs:
X: (twitter.com/grafana)
LinkedIn: (linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs/)
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#Grafana #Observability
