In this post, we explore Razorpay’s anomaly detection and alerting platform (ADA) architecture using Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and other AWS services. According to Razorpay the system detects transaction anomalies in under 30 seconds, supports thousands of merchant-level alerts, and reduced monitoring costs by approximately 80 percent. The platform maintains 99.99 percent uptime for over 500 million transactions per month.