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Connect infrastructure and slow APIs for continuous cross-environment diagnosis

ABOUT SAINT-GOBAIN

About the customer

Saint-Gobain is a global provider of materials and services for construction and infrastructure, spanning product design, manufacturing, and distribution. Multiple digital systems support its supply chain, production, sales, and internal operations, making reliable coordination between applications and infrastructure essential to business continuity.

Building materials Industry
Materials and services Business focus
Sustainable construction Serves

The challenge

Healthy servers do not explain every slow application

Saint-Gobain's applications span different infrastructure environments. Separate resource and logging tools left teams connecting individual calls, dependencies, and runtime conditions when applications became slow.

Resources, middleware, and applications were observed through different entry points. Teams repeatedly checked affected objects and timing before establishing the full scope.

Alerts described symptoms without directly linking to traces and logs. Development and operations had to collect more evidence, interrupting the investigation with tool changes.

KEY RESULTS

25%

Expected reduction: Slow-API diagnosis time

25%

Expected reduction: Cross-environment investigation hours

15%

Expected reduction: Monitoring maintenance effort

SOLUTION

Saint-Gobain × Guance — Solution

01

Build a consistent view of resources and services

Hosts, networks, middleware, cloud resources, and logs share service, environment, and time context. Teams can establish which systems an issue involves before investigating details.

25%

Expected reduction: Cross-environment investigation hours

02

Break API response time into its dependencies

APM exposes service, database, and external-dependency latency. Related logs and host state help teams identify the processing stage behind a bottleneck.

25%

Expected reduction: Slow-API diagnosis time

03

Connect alerts to the investigation workflow

Shared alert and visualization context lets responders move from an abnormal metric to related traces, logs, and resources without recreating search conditions.

15%

Expected reduction: Monitoring maintenance effort

BUSINESS IMPACT

Give application and infrastructure teams the same incident to investigate

01

Slow APIs can be checked layer by layer

Request latency can be examined with dependencies and resource changes, reducing reliance on isolated infrastructure metrics.

02

Evidence stays connected across environments

A shared service and time perspective reduces cross-platform searching and manual assembly of records.

03

Platform effort supports service reliability

Reusable collection, analysis, alerting, and visualization allow teams to focus on response and stability improvements.

Build observability around your business

Work with Guance to connect telemetry, investigate service issues, and give teams shared operational context.