Case Study: Limelight Networks achieves sub-hour root-cause resolution and low-overhead production monitoring with AppDynamics

Limelight Networks Chooses AppDynamics for Low Overhead Production Monitoring

Limelight Networks’ Dynamic Site Platform is a SaaS web content management and delivery solution that runs hundreds of business websites and supports thousands of authors, marketers and developers. Because the platform exposes a powerful templating system, customer-written code can generate heavy and unpredictable load; Limelight relied on logs and occasional debuggers to troubleshoot issues, which was slow, unscalable and offered poor visibility into memory use and external calls.

Limelight selected AppDynamics for its low production overhead and deep visibility into memory utilization and external URL calls. AppDynamics quickly revealed a persistent memory leak, enabled fast isolation of slow third‑party hosts, and automatically mapped application topology. As a result, application stability improved, mean time to repair dropped from days to under an hour, and the team was able to deploy and use the tool in production in about an hour.

Limelight Networks

Dave Anderson

Senior Systems Engineer