VTEX scales to 150 million metrics using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

This article discusses how VTEX, a global ecommerce company, scaled their monitoring system to ingest and store 150 million metrics using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP). It highlights the challenges VTEX faced with their previous centralized monitoring tool and how they evaluated various options before choosing AMP.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Introduction to VTEX and their monitoring challenges
• Evaluation of options like Cortex, VictoriaMetrics, TimescaleDB, and AMP
• Why VTEX chose AMP - scalability, flexibility, integration with AWS, and managed service
• VTEX's sharding architecture for ingesting metrics into AMP
• Results achieved, including increased resilience, better isolation, and reduced costs
• Next steps for VTEX's observability modernization using OpenTelemetry