---
title: "Iris - Turning observations into actionable insights for enhanced decision making"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/iris---turning-observations-into-actionable-insights-for-enhanced-decision-making-v6axp1oy9
source_url: https://engineering.grab.com/iris
type: article
source: "Grab Tech Blog"
published: 2024-04-03T03:26:26.711Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:43:33.910Z
tags: ["machine-learning", "data-science", "big-data", "kafka", "observability", "spark", "grafana", "influxdb", "etl"]
reading_time: 17
upvotes: 2
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Iris - Turning observations into actionable insights for enhanced decision making

**[Grab Tech Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/grab)** · 17 min read · 2 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Iris is an observability platform for ETL jobs that captures critical job metrics, provides real-time monitoring and offline analytics, and offers actionable insights. It uses metrics collector, Kafka queue, and TIG stack for its platform architecture and collects data using JVM Profiler and sparkMeasure. Iris visualizes real-time data using Grafana and routes metrics to InfluxDB for offline analysis. It also employs K-means clustering for job classification and enhances accuracy in calculating Databricks infrastructure costs. Case studies demonstrate how Iris improves performance and cost efficiency. Future plans include developing APIs, adding a Presto listener, and creating a feedback loop for continuous improvement.

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Tags: [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#data-science](https://daily.dev/tags/data-science), [#big-data](https://daily.dev/tags/big-data), [#kafka](https://daily.dev/tags/kafka), [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#spark](https://daily.dev/tags/spark), [#grafana](https://daily.dev/tags/grafana), [#influxdb](https://daily.dev/tags/influxdb), [#etl](https://daily.dev/tags/etl)

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