At Car IQ, a real-time financial transactions company, they aimed to monitor and resolve issues quickly to maintain customer satisfaction. To achieve this, they implemented dashboards with distributed tracing agents, alerts, and synthetic monitoring. The dashboards provided a high-level view of infrastructure performance, allowing them to identify issues instantly. They fine-tuned their alert thresholds to ensure only critical errors reached their teams, enabling swift action and minimizing alert fatigue. Synthetic monitoring enabled regular checks on their systems, validating data integrity and performance. By automating their DevOps processes, Car IQ reduced costs, increased engineering team delivery rates, and shifted focus towards product development and strategic partnerships.