Case Study: Glassdoor achieves rapid, easy monitoring of critical applications with AppDynamics

Glassdoor chooses AppDynamics to obtain clear view of performance

Glassdoor, a leading jobs and career community that aggregates company reviews, salaries and interview feedback, faced a critical visibility problem: CTO Ryan Aylward and his team had only hunch-based knowledge of slow areas and no clear way to find root causes. With user traffic and brand reputation at stake, they needed an application performance management (APM) solution to ensure their consumer-facing site stayed fast and reliable.

After evaluating a dozen tools, Glassdoor selected AppDynamics for its ease of use, rich functionality and low production overhead—its SaaS, auto-instrumenting approach required no custom wiring. Deployed in production, AppDynamics immediately revealed known and unexpected bottlenecks, let engineers identify root causes and required actions, and provided the ongoing visibility Glassdoor needed to maintain peak site performance.

Glassdoor

Ryan Aylward

CTO