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Mr Green is an online casino, founded in 2007
Active in 12 EU countries
Key differentiators include emphasis on “green gaming”, the provision of
a single wallet across a range of games as well as a unique brand
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Mr Green Technology principles….
Speed is key
Remove
dependencies
Enable
business
Counterpart
to business
Degradation
of services
Reward the
right
behaviour
Top talent
attracts other
talent
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History of Splunk at Mr Green
Splunk introduced
(IT troubleshooting across
select applications)
Splunk becomes data hub
Splunk ITSI introduced
I join Mr Green
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Why Splunk?
We needed a centralised data hub to support
our infrastructure and support increased
release cycles
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Splunk evolution
Existing small licence
Transition to central
data hub
Splunk ITSI
Splunk usage had been focused on troubleshooting select
applications affecting customer experience
We wanted a central data hub to store data in a raw format,
with a layer on top to allow us to make direct changes. Splunk
becomes Mr Green’s big data solution
With all our data already in Splunk we decided to use Splunk
ITSI to provide further business value
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Hardware
● Primary site
○ 12 Physical servers
○ 16 cores, 32 GB Ram per node
○ SSD Storage
○ 9 indexers, 3 search heads
● 3 Virtual indexers for DR offsite.
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Curiosa● Users
○ Tech uses to monitor not only logs but also
business and releases and changes
○ CS, dashboards for the NOC service
○ Business to become datadriven
○ Systems for getting the offline data
● Usage
○ Collect all events in the system
○ Monitoring
○ Surveillance
○ Measure
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Splunk impact
All infrastructure log data is within Splunk, making it central
to our entire operation
We are now able to continuously deploy successful
updates, with around 600 releases per month that correlates
to 30 releases a day. Splunk is also fully continuous
Rebuilding the whole architecture has enabled us to launch
several new products. E.g IOS, Android, Bonus engine
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My dream…..
When I was responsible for application operations I had a dream...
Of somewhere you could see the whole of IT Operations….
Where you could see traffic patterns and compare to historical data…
Where you could monitor business KPIs and compare with historical
data and get alerts….
Where the dashboard showed green yellow and red when something
was not working as intended…..
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The dream is now reality….ITSI at Mr Green
Screenshot here
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• Field conventions are important, needs to be aligned with
business
• Incremental import from databases is not easy depending on
schema, real-time events are better
• Setup a multi-site cluster from the beginning so that all buckets
becomes multi site buckets.
Lessons learned
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ITSI benefits
We can see and monitor
the performance of the
entire of the Mr Green
business
All executives have
access to a Splunk
dashboard for real-time
insight into
performance
We can understand
immediately if upgrades
are behaving as
expected
Every marketing
campaign has a
dashboard to chart
progress
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The future for Splunk ITSI…
Integration into
the customer
operations center
Incorporate third
party data
Speed above all, with high speed comes lower cost and possibility to fail faster, more often and by this beat the competition.
Remove dependencies, with no dependencies the only restrictions the team have is self.
Enable business, help business do what they are the experts in with the best solutions
Counterpart to business, help business get the best conditions to succeed. Try to understand their needs.
Degradation of service, if one service fails do not let it bring down the whole system.
Reward the right behavior, think how you set your rewards so people are steered in the right direction.
Existing small licence: Initial Splunk license was focused on only a select certain applications
Transition: We wanted a central data hub to support a new architectural setup that improved our responsiveness
Splunk ITSI: Splunk ITSI
Integration into the customer operations center: For the 24/7 monitoring service, providing alerts when deposit methods are down and then provide insight into the background.
Incorporate third party data: It could be picking up data about the weather and using that data in marketing to create intelligence in the system. We also plan on integrating external data to enhance the customer journey but also to integrate it into marketing decisions.