Thursday, March 10th, 2016 1PM EST

Clever is an identity and authentication SaaS product serving millions of students, in tens of thousands of schools. Mohit Gupta, Product and Engineering Lead for Clever’s infrastructure, is responsible for the platforms that keep the product running every day.

Most people are familiar with healthcheck and polling-based monitoring and alerting systems. Clever chose to go a different route - instrumenting metrics throughout their stack, from infrastructure up through custom metrics from the microservices behind the app. Mohit will discuss why Clever chose this direction, and why it’s important for operating SaaS products.

John Bruce, Head of Solutions Engineering from SignalFx, will discuss how SignalFx was built for the world of DevOps and microservices, and demonstrate how customers like Clever use it every day.

What you will learn:

Why you should use metric data for monitoring and alerting
What kinds of metrics really matter
How to reduce alert noise through analytics

Our PanelistS

Mohit Gupta

Product Engineer

With experience in design research, technology policy, and software engineering, Mohit works on product engineering at Clever. Previously he worked at Location Labs, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Microsoft Research focusing on web infrastructure, data privacy, mobile geolocation research and map-based storytelling. Mohit holds a Masters from the UC Berkeley School of Information.

John Bruce

Solution Engineering

John Bruce is an entrepreneur and leader in the SaaS / Enterprise Software space, with a formal background in technology & software engineering. At SignalFx John is the Head of Solution Engineering, where he is heavily focused on sales engineering, product development and consumer input. Before SignalFx, he worked with at companies like Zuora and Pandora.

Our Host

Alan Shimel

Editor-in-Chief

An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.

From Healthchecks to Real-time Metrics – Clever’s Journey