Zero Latency is focused on creating the greatest free-roam, multiplayer, virtual reality experiences in the world. Zero Latency chose the Elastic Stack for their telemetry platform to reduce performance issues. Learn how they did it.

2. Building a Telemetry Platform on the Elastic Stack
Billy Arrigo
Data & Insights Analyst
billy.arrigo@zerolatencyvr.com
Zee Nastalski
Senior Software Engineer
zbigniew.nastalski@zerolatencyvr.com

3. What Is Zero Latency

4. What Is Zero Latency
● Started in Melbourne in 2014
● 45 Venues in 21 countries
● 7 games
● In-house built tracking system, software and
hardware.
● ~2000 computers

5. Our Problem

6. The Solution

7. Elastic Stack at Zero Latency
Instances
● Development
● Production
Spaces
● DevOps
● Web
● Support
● Elastic Monitoring
● Experimental

8. Informed Game Design
Developing games that are
• fun
• intuitive
• safe
Telemetry in mind at design phase

9. Informed Game Design - Measure

10. Informed Game Design - Measure

11. Safety

12. Safety System
Intense VR experiences and
untethered players

13. 5 Players in Engineerium
game.
~4000 data points
on average 7% of samples
where players see
proximity warning

17. Infrastructure Monitoring
Maintaining the infrastructure operational is a
challenge
● Wear and tear on hardware
● Occasional software issues
We need good alerting...

18. Elastic stack is helping us
making better software
- Aggregation on most
common errors messages
- Finding memory leaks
- Identifying performance
issues
Software Development

19. Our Journey with Elastic
December 2018
Googling ‘what is Elasticsearch’
February 2019
The solution deployed in production
August 2019
Cluster Award at Elastic{On} Sydney

20. Future
• Double number of sites every year
• Kibana Staff Training
• APM
• Machine Learning

21. Sol Raiders

22. Thank You
zerolatencyvr.com