Case Study: OurStage achieves real-time, full-stack web application performance visibility with AppNeta TraceView

OurStage Takes Control of Web App Performance With TraceView

OurStage is a popular music discovery site with over 125,000 artists, 4 million monthly visits from 170 countries, and highly variable traffic. The operations team needed a real-time performance monitoring solution that wouldn’t slow web requests, would scale with growth, and would provide actionable insight—older methods like ApacheBench, manual log parsing, and aggregate-only APM (New Relic) were too slow or lacked the deep detail required.

OurStage deployed AppNeta’s TraceView to get full‑stack tracing from the browser through application layers to the database, plus visualization like heatmaps for rapid drill-downs and outlier detection. TraceView is now used daily to diagnose and proactively identify performance trends, dramatically speeding root‑cause analysis and becoming the team’s go‑to tool for maintaining a fast, reliable user experience.

OurStage

Mark Niedzielski

VP of Operations