# How Shopify Reduced Metrics Resources by 75%

DevFeed: [How Shopify Reduced Metrics Resources by 75%](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-shopify-reduced-metrics-resources-by-75-17977.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.betterstack.com/p/how-shopify-reduced-metrics-resources>)

Author: Richard Oliver Bray

Published: 2024-11-27T13:02:25Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hacking Scale by Better Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hacking-scale-by-better-stack.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>)

Tags: [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [container](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container.md>), [grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how Shopify built its own observability tool, Observe, after third-party logging, metrics, and tracing services became expensive and difficult to integrate. Observe uses Grafana for its user interface and visualization, while Shopify monitors metrics from infrastructure that can scale to about one million endpoints.

## Source excerpt

Shopify saved resources by breaking big tools into tiny reusable services