Case Study: Penton Media achieves improved Drupal application performance and deep visibility with AppNeta TraceView

Penton Media Improves the Performance of its Custom Drupal Application with TraceView

Penton Media, a leading B2B media company serving more than six million professionals, runs a custom multi-site Drupal CMS in a virtualized environment. Despite large 8-core, 10 GB VMs and extensive caching, the site experienced performance problems; New Relic confirmed some issues but didn’t provide the deep, actionable visibility the systems team needed or a third-party validation of server capacity.

Penton installed AppNeta’s TraceView with the Drupal module and quickly gained detailed, end-to-end visibility into page-level performance, memory and CPU use, and traffic patterns. TraceView revealed a large volume of unauthenticated traffic, enabled role-based partitioning to improve response times, proved the VMs were sufficient, and helped the team identify application-code bottlenecks to drive performance improvements.

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Travis Crowder

Systems Engineer, Penton Media