Case Study: Sonatype (operator of the Maven Central repository) achieves real-time visibility and reliable performance with New Relic

Ensuring availability and performance of World’s largest repository of Java open source software components

Sonatype, founded in 2008 by Apache Maven creator Jason van Zyl, operates the Central Repository—the world’s largest Java OSS component store with 300,000+ components, about 4 billion requests per year, and some 42,000 organizations accessing it monthly. Because the repository, publishing service and search are critical to thousands of development teams, Sonatype needed real-time visibility into a complex Java/Lucene/Solr/MySQL environment; their existing tools left them scraping logs after failures and unable to proactively prevent outages or scale effectively.

Sonatype implemented New Relic for deep instrumentation of Java, Lucene, Solr and MySQL, later adding server-level monitoring, giving end-to-end insight across the ecosystem. The result was immediate: better memory and performance visibility, fewer outages through proactive fixes, faster diagnosis when issues occur, and a measurable productivity boost—helping ensure reliable, high-performance access for tens of thousands of companies.

Sonatype

Brian Fox

VP of Product Management