# Evolving the Backend Storage for Platform Metrics

DevFeed: [Evolving the Backend Storage for Platform Metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/evolving-the-backend-storage-for-platform-metrics-26401.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.heroku.com/blog/evolving-backend-storage-for-platform-metrics/>)

Author: David Murray

Published: 2024-05-09T22:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/heroku.md>)

Topics: [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/heroku.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [Time Series](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/time-series.md>), [Apache Cassandra](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cassandra.md>), [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>), [stream-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/stream-processing.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/autoscaling.md>)

Tags: [apache-kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache-kafka.md>), [app-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app-architecture.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autoscaling.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [cassandra](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cassandra.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [data-analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-analytics.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [developer-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-tools.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/heroku.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [performance-optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance-optimization.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [platform-updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform-updates.md>), [stream-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stream-processing.md>), [time-series](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time-series.md>)

## AI overview

Heroku describes an infrastructure upgrade that migrated the storage backend for platform metrics. The article explains how MetaaS collects application observations, aggregates them into time-series statistics, and uses Kafka, stream-processing jobs, and Cassandra to support dashboard metrics, alerting, autoscaling, retention, and querying.

## Source excerpt

One of our most important goals at Heroku is to be boring. Don't get us wrong, we certainly hope that you're excited about the Heroku developer experience -- as heavy users of Heroku ourselves, we certainly are! But, even more so, we hope that you don't have to spend all that much time thinking about [...] The post Evolving the Backend Storage for Platform Metrics appeared first on Heroku.