Case Study: FlightStats achieves improved travel experiences for millions and $300K+ in savings with New Relic

New Relic Helps FlightStats Improve the Travel Experience of Millions of Travelers around the World

FlightStats is a leader in global flight data services, providing real-time information on roughly 90,000 flights per day to more than 6 million monthly visitors. Facing a big-data challenge, the company needed better end-to-end visibility into how customers use its services, faster detection of performance issues, cost optimization for hybrid cloud workloads, and ways to prevent unpaid scraping of its data.

By adopting the full New Relic platform for APM, browser, insights, server, synthetics and plugins, FlightStats gained full-stack monitoring and user insights that sped its AWS migration, helped right-size resources, and let it move endpoints closer to customers to eliminate 200+ ms of latency. The results included over $300,000 in optimization savings, a 50% reduction in scraper traffic by redirecting it to paid APIs, and improved DevOps collaboration and faster operational decision-making.

FlightStats

Chad Berkley

Chief Technology Officer