Case Study: Leaf Group achieves 66% lower monitoring costs and improved website performance with IBM Instana Observability

Leaf Group ensures website performance using Instana

Leaf Group, the operator of high-traffic lifestyle and marketplace sites like Livestrong.com, eHow, Well+Good and Saatchi Art, needed a way to keep website performance reliable as its business grew and its applications moved to containers. Its legacy monitoring approach lacked the automation and visibility needed for modern containerized, microservices-based CI/CD workflows, creating too many manual steps and slowing the team down. IBM Instana Observability was selected to help solve this challenge.

IBM implemented Instana to automate observability across Leaf Group’s deployment pipeline, including distributed tracing, root cause analysis, and monitoring of speed, latency, logs and page load times. The results were significant: Leaf Group cut monitoring costs by 66% and reduced error rates, response times and latency, while gaining the visibility needed to optimize performance and scale more efficiently.

Leaf Group

Marcus Sengol

SVP of Technical Operations