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Introduction
For gaming companies, creating a positive user experience is paramount. Gamers expect seamless gameplay, fast response times, and 24/7 availability. Maintaining top-notch performance is crucial when managing massive multiplayer online games, mobile games, or e-sports platforms.
This blog will explain how gaming companies rely on monitoring and explore many widespread monitoring use cases for gaming companies.
Why Gaming Companies Need Monitoring
Gaming companies, in particular, need application monitoring to ensure that users have good gaming experiences. Latency, errors, and crashes make games less appealing, directly affecting revenue.
It is also critical for them to monitor their servers to scale effectively. This helps gaming operations manage their resources and traffic. Monitoring also gives you added security, so you and the players can rest easy.
Next, we'll look at gaming companies' top monitoring use cases.
Top Gaming Monitoring Use Cases
- Game Server Performance Monitoring
- Monitoring server health, latency, and resource usage ensures that your game runs smoothly for players. It also helps prevent unexpected downtime by alerting your team before critical thresholds are breached.
- Player Experience Monitoring
- Track key metrics such as logins, signups, errors, player session lengths, and more to understand user engagement better and identify potential performance bottlenecks.
- Database Performance Monitoring
- Games with leaderboards, in-game purchases, or saved player data rely heavily on database performance. Monitoring query response times and connection pooling ensures smooth transactions and gameplay.
- Security Monitoring
- Monitoring for DDoS attacks, cheating behavior, and suspicious account activity helps keep your gaming platform secure and ensures fair play for all users.
Getting Started with MetricFire
MetricFire has customers in many different industries, but gaming companies in particular trust MetricFire because they prefer to invest their time in maintaining their infrastructure overall and create more games. Our team operates as partners rather than simply a platform. We will walk you through how to send metrics, build dashboards and alerts, and more, and once it's set up, that's it! You'll have everything you need to ensure your applications and servers are running smoothly.
Key Features:
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Real-time Dashboards: Visualize real-time server performance, player activity, and error rates.
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Kubernetes & Cloud Monitoring: Perfect for gaming companies using cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes to manage scaling servers.
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Custom Alerts: Set up alerts for critical metrics like server response times or bandwidth spikes, allowing you to respond before an issue affects your players.
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Integrations: Easily integrate with gaming engines, APIs, and third-party services to monitor your gaming platform's full ecosystem.
MetricFire offers a user-friendly experience that ensures game developers and operations teams can quickly set up and maintain an effective monitoring environment without deep technical expertise.
What Gaming Companies Think of MetricFire
Gaming companies trust MetricFire to help them deliver outstanding player experiences. We have customers like Zynga, Roblox and more in the gaming space. One standout case is HypGames, a leading mobile gaming company that needed a robust, scalable monitoring solution to handle the complexities of its game infrastructure.
HypGames Case Study:
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Challenge: As a mobile gaming company, HypGames faced challenges scaling their infrastructure and maintaining visibility into player metrics across multiple platforms.
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Solution: MetricFire provided an intuitive monitoring solution that allowed HypGames to track key performance indicators (KPIs) like user engagement, server performance, and in-game events. “MetricFire handled the storage and visualization of their data so they could focus on their most important tasks.”
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Result: With MetricFire, HypGames effortlessly scaled its infrastructure while maintaining optimal performance, leading to better player retention and a smoother gameplay experience.
Learn more about how HypGames benefited from MetricFire here.
Conclusion
Monitoring gives gaming companies optimal performance and secure, scalable infrastructure. Gaming companies can use a simple and customizable monitoring platform like MetricFire to ensure that their servers, networks, and applications always perform at their best.
MetricFire makes it easy to get started, scale as your game grows, and optimize your resources—all while providing peace of mind with its real-time insights and custom alerts.