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Join C Spire as they share their journey migrating from fragmented legacy observability tools to Grafana Cloud and OpenTelemetry. Discover how they replaced AppDynamics, LogicMonitor, and Splunk with a unified observability stack—improving performance, reducing costs, and enabling end-to-end visibility across thousands of VMs and microservices. Hear from Zachary Sistrunk, Software Developer III at C Spire, about: - Why Grafana Cloud and OpenTelemetry outperformed competitors like Splunk APM, Datadog, and New Relic - How C Spire scaled observability across 6 development teams and 1,000+ service combinations - Key benefits: automated labeling, unified alerting with Grafana OnCall, and RED metrics from traces - Future plans with Grafana Asserts, Kubernetes observability, custom business metrics, and BI integrations Timestamps: 00:00 – Intro & About C Spire 02:20 – Legacy Tooling Challenges (AppDynamics, Splunk, LogicMonitor) 05:56 – Why Grafana Cloud & OpenTelemetry 07:54 – Proof of Concept & Team Training 12:01 – On-Prem Challenges → Moving to Grafana Cloud 15:39 – Full Migration Timeline & Results 17:56 – Unified Alerting & On Call 20:49 – Application Observability in Action 23:42 – What’s Next: Kubernetes, IRM & Business Metrics Relevant links: ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case. Sign up: https://grafana.com/get/ ❓ Have a question that isn't related to this video? Check out the Official Grafana Community Forums and ask your question or find your answer: https://community.grafana.com/ --- Thanks for watching! 👍 Was this video helpful? Like and subscribe to our channel for more videos. Connect with Grafana Labs: X: (https://www.twitter.com/grafana) LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs/) Facebook: (https://www.facebook.com/grafana) #Grafana #Observability