Customer Success Story: FuseMail
The Challenge
The FuseMail technical team was assigned the task of collecting email latency statistics on their core mailer. The timing data is confined to the time their mailer spends processing messages (scanning, filtering and routing). The requirements were that they keep long-term latency percentile data in daily, weekly and monthly aggregates so that they can report their performance and track it against their SLA, review their software updates and deployments, check for changes in overall performance, and improve capacity planning. The faster they could identify spam and a compromised account or system, the better their email security solutions and customer experience.
The Solution
FuseMail chose InfluxDB because it can store raw metrics, it does not aggregate data on ingest, and it can store multiple fields per row. Each of InfluxDB, Prometheus and Graphite have a place in FuseMail architecture, but for any event logging, FuseMail uses InfluxDB.