From Confusion to Clarity—How a Fintech CTO Cut MTTR in Half

 

From Confusion to Clarity—How a Fintech CTO Cut MTTR in Half

During a critical product release, a fintech company’s payment API suddenly began lagging. Transactions stalled. Alerts surged. But root cause? Unknown.

The CTO faced a firestorm of messages:
“Something’s off in prod.”
“Nothing weird in CloudWatch.”
“Try restarting the service?”

Ninety minutes passed. The damage was done.

Why Their Tools Weren’t Enough

The issue wasn’t a tool failure. It was a visibility breakdown.

  • Static diagrams in a dynamic cloud
    Their infra spanned AWS and GCP, but their only “map” was a dated Visio export.

  • Siloed dashboards slowed insight
    Monitoring tools weren’t connected. Every alert meant chasing leads in separate platforms.

  • No visibility into IAM config drift
    The root cause—a silent permission rollback—wasn’t caught in time. There was no auto-diff or audit log insight.

Cloudshot Rewrote Their Playbook

The CTO deployed Cloudshot that week. The change was immediate.

  • Real-time multi-cloud topology map
    All services and interdependencies, visualized in one live view.

  • Drift detection with instant alerts
    Cloudshot surfaced policy rollbacks as they happened.

  • Context-rich triage workflow
    Instead of flood alerts, the team saw causal paths and impact scopes—fast.

The Results

  • MTTR went from 90 to 38 minutes

  • 30% fewer irrelevant alerts

  • Actionable postmortems every time

💬 “We’re finally in control of our stack again,” said their CTO.
"Cloudshot gives us insight—not noise."

Don’t let visibility be your blind spot.
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