Automating Merchant Live Monitoring with Real-Time Analytics - Charon | Apache Pinot™ Apache Pinot 1.5.1 is available now.Download Now DocsUse CasesAgent-Facing AnalyticsDownloadWho Uses PinotBlogCommunity Get Started Automating Merchant Live Monitoring with Real-Time Analytics - Charon By: Uber Data Team April 29th, 2021 • 1 min read At Uber, live monitoring and automation of Ops is critical to preserve marketplace health, maintain reliability, and gain efficiency in markets. By the virtue of the word “live”, this monitoring needs to show what is happening now, with prompt access to fresh data, and the ability to recommend appropriate actions based on that data. Uber’s data platform provides the self-serve tools which empower the Ops teams to build their own live monitoring tools, and support their regional teams by building rich solutions. For this project, the requirement was to provide merchant level monitoring and handle the edge cases which remain unaddressed by the sophisticated internal marketplace management tools. We used a variety of Uber’s real-time data platform components to build a tool called Charon to reduce impact of poor marketplace reliability on the merchants. Read More at https://eng.uber.com/charon/ Table of Contents Resources DocsGetting StartedThirdEye Company StoriesDownloadBlog Apache FoundationLicenseSecurity SponsorshipEventsThanks Join our newsletter Subscribe Copyright © 2026 The Apache Software Foundation. Apache Pinot, Pinot, Apache, the Apache feather logo, and the Apache Pinot project logo are registered trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. This page has references to third party software - Presto, PrestoDB, ThirdEye, Trino, TrinoDB, that are not part of the Apache Software Foundation and are not covered under the Apache License.