Log Analysis @ Outsmart Games

Nathan Smith, Technical Director

Outsmart Games

S3 content,

configuration, assets.

Content Manager

Microservices

Customer Service

DynamoDB

Monitoring

Hystrix, CloudWatch, SumoLogic

Player State

Edge

authentication, routing

Find Bugs

• Unit Testing

• Q/A Team

• Customer Care

Capturing Logs

Microservices

Device Log Message

• Time

• Device Id, Model, OS

• IP address

• User Id

• UI State (Loading, Store, Dungeon)

• Type (Info, Warn, Error, Exception)

Understanding Errors

Snapshot & Export Game State

Identifying Errors

Immediate Benefits

• Mean Time to Identify

• Visibility across infrastructure

• Visibility across all devices

Unexpected Benefits

Unexpected Benefits

Unexpected Benefits

• Scheduled Searching

• Visibility of Content Distribution

• Targeted Customer Care

Traffic Analysis

DDoS Detection

Where are the logs?

Thank you!

Nathan Smith, Technical Director nathan.smith@outsmartgames.com