Case Study: Intelligence Fusion achieves 13x faster API response times with Sentry

How Intelligence Fusion made API response time 13x faster by finding performance bottlenecks with Sentry

Intelligence Fusion, a provider of intelligence, risk assessment, and situational awareness solutions, needed a faster way to identify and fix slow API endpoints and rendering issues across its PHP-based platform. As the team scaled and worked with a legacy API, they turned to Sentry Performance and tracing to move beyond reactive debugging and pinpoint performance bottlenecks more efficiently.

Using Sentry, Intelligence Fusion added tracing and profiling across its services, quickly found slow database queries and inefficient PHP code, and made targeted optimizations such as gzip compression, opcache, JIT, and query chunking. The results were significant: average latency across APIs dropped sharply, and the slowest country data endpoint improved from 17.5 seconds to 1.2 seconds, making its API response time 13x faster.

Intelligence Fusion

Thomas Hockaday

Lead Engineer