AutoTrader.com Chooses dynaTrace

BOSTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AutoTrader.com, the web’s leading auto classifieds marketplace and consumer information website, has chosen dynaTrace Diagnostics® from dynaTrace software, the leader in application performance management and diagnostics for heterogeneous Java/.NET enterprise applications, to monitor and diagnose performance issues throughout their application lifecycle.

“dynaTrace is a necessity for a complex environment like ours.”

“ROI plays a big role with the dynaTrace value proposition,” AutoTrader.com Performance Engineer Leonard Fingerman said. “It gives developers and other pre-production technicians the ability to resolve issues earlier before they become crises.”

dynaTrace Diagnostics core is PurePath Technology^®: technology enabling transaction tracing across various physical and logical tiers, whether Java or .NET. While tracing, PurePath measures the performance of individual servers, components and method borders (where problems occur), enhancing those findings with correlated contextual information such as logs, exceptions and method arguments (why problems occur).

“Figuring out the root cause is the most time-consuming issue; once you know the root cause the solution may not be easy, but at least you know it’s feasible,” said Fingerman. “dynaTrace’s PurePath is really powerful technology - with dynaTrace, we found the most inefficient SQL queries as well as code redundancy in our application in minutes versus what used to take days or weeks. We can take guesswork out of the lifecycle and use dynaTrace as an analytical way of discovering inefficiencies before they become issues.”

dynaTrace’s lifecycle-spanning design also enables cross-functional teams to share PurePath data across departments and view that data in each‘s individual context, so Autotrader.com’s engineers all stay on the same page. “It’s great across the lifecycle,” Fingerman said. “Developers can drill down into the heap dump to see what’s in the heap, while QA and production can compare execution or response times for specific transactions.”

dynaTrace’s PurePath provides users tasked with optimizing application performance across the lifecycle the full transaction path across all physical and logical server tiers. “With multi-tier complexity growing in J2EE applications and architectures, such a solution is a must-have,” said Fingerman. “dynaTrace is a necessity for a complex environment like ours.”

About AutoTrader.com

AutoTrader.com, created in 1997 and headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., is the Internet's leading auto classifieds marketplace and consumer information website. AutoTrader.com aggregates in a single location more than 3 million vehicle listings from 40,000 dealers and 250,000 private owners, which provide the largest selection of vehicles attracting about 14 million qualified buyers each month. Through innovative merchandising products such as multiple photos and comprehensive search functionality, AutoTrader.com unites buyer and seller online - dramatically improving the way people research, locate and advertise vehicles. http://www.autorader.com/

About dynaTrace software, Inc.

dynaTrace is the leader in application performance for business-critical Java and .NET applications. dynaTrace’s PurePath Technology®, the core of the next generation of Application Performance Management, is the only solution that captures data on all individual transactions down to code level by tracing their “PurePath” across multiple heterogeneous physical and logical tiers – even 24x7 under load in production – enabling customers to move beyond monitoring to diagnosis and resolution. In each application lifecycle stage – development, QA, staging, live operations in production – IT personnel now can see and understand where and why performance issues exist. With dynaTrace, enterprises gain better understanding of their applications’ dynamic behavior and how it impacts their business, allowing them to rapidly reconstruct problems to identify the root-cause and fix it.

Monitor. Diagnose. Resolve. www.dynatrace.com