Chaos Genius

What is Chaos Genius?

Chaos Genius is a comprehensive open-source DataOps observability platform designed to help businesses monitor thousands of KPIs across multiple data sources, automate root cause analysis for KPI deviations, and optimize data infrastructure costs. It integrates with databases, data warehouses, and popular third-party services, providing modular anomaly detection, multidimensional drill-down analysis, and smart alerting to reduce detection and resolution times. Additionally, Chaos Genius offers specialized capabilities for Snowflake and Databricks cost optimization, delivering actionable recommendations to improve query performance and reduce cloud spending.

Key Features

• Anomaly Detection

  Modular toolkit for detecting anomalies in high-dimensional time series data with support for multiple models and investigation across various data quality metrics.

• DeepDrills Analysis

  Multidimensional drill-down and waterfall analysis to identify key drivers behind KPI changes across multiple dimensions.

• Smart Alerts

  Self-learning alert thresholds to minimize false positives and configurable alert frequency and severity, with multi-channel delivery including Slack and email.

• Extensive Integrations

  Supports diverse data sources including databases, data warehouses, and third-party connectors like Stripe, Shopify, Google Analytics, and more.

• Snowflake & Databricks Cost Optimization

  Tools to analyze and optimize cloud data warehouse costs by monitoring usage patterns, query performance, warehouse utilization, and storage, with automated cost-saving recommendations.

Use Cases

• Business KPI Observability : Monitor critical business metrics such as sign-ups, payment failures, fraud detection, ad spend, and user engagement to quickly detect and resolve issues.
• Data Quality Monitoring : Track data quality KPIs like volume, freshness, missing data, and null counts to ensure reliable analytics and reporting.
• Cloud Cost Management : Optimize Snowflake and Databricks costs by identifying inefficient queries, underutilized warehouses, and storage waste to reduce cloud spending by up to 30%.
• Automated Root Cause Analysis : Automatically diagnose reasons behind KPI deviations to accelerate troubleshooting and reduce Mean-Time-To-Detect and Mean-Time-To-Resolve.
• System and IoT Metrics Monitoring : Observe system KPIs like cloud infrastructure performance and IoT device metrics such as uptime and data volumes for operational efficiency.

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