Perhaps you only analyze garbage collection logs a few times a year. Is it still worth getting a GCeasy subscription? We believe the answer is “yes.” Open-heart surgeries are rare events, often happening just once in a lifetime. Yet, their value to human life is immeasurable. Similarly, the deep JVM insights that GCeasy provides are invaluable, even if used infrequently.
Nine times out of ten, we see that teams evaluating GCeasy quickly realize the value and choose a full license. Still, most organizations have a software buying process, and engineering teams often need to present a strong case for the purchase.
If you’re in a similar position, this article is designed to help you build that case for your decision makers and secure your GCeasy subscription!
1. You’ll Reduce Computing Costs Significantly
For most organizations, computing resources are one of the biggest recurring expenses. Yet, garbage collection tuning is often overlooked because it’s not something engineers deal with every day. The reality is, even though GC tuning may only be done occasionally, its impact is long-lasting and transformative.
Take Uber, for example. As they scaled globally, their cloud costs ballooned due to inefficient Go (Golang) garbage collection behavior. To diagnose and optimize this, they used GCeasy to analyze the GC logs, tune the processes, and cut back an astonishing 70,000 CPU cores, saving millions of dollars in cloud costs. That’s the kind of outcome where a single optimization effort delivers compounding cost savings month after month.
And the good news is, you don’t need Uber’s scale to see the benefit. Even smaller environments can unlock big wins: reduced CPU and memory usage, fewer servers or containers to manage, lower licensing costs, and overall infrastructure efficiency. Rarely used but highly effective, GC tuning helps you save money while keeping your applications lean and cost-efficient.
Read how Uber cut costs through smarter GC tuning.
2. You’ll Improve Application Performance & User Experience
Most performance teams instinctively look at database query optimization or code refactoring when response times lag. While these efforts can help, they rarely deliver improvements across the entire application. What makes GC tuning remarkable is that, even if done just once, it can unlock extraordinary, system-wide performance gains.
Take one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers. Their applications were slowed by inefficient GC behavior. By optimizing their GC settings with GCeasy, they cut average response times in half from 1.88 seconds to 0.95 seconds, without touching a single line of code or re-architecting infrastructure.
For businesses, that means faster applications, happier customers, and stronger retention. All from an intervention that’s not done often, but when it is, the results are extraordinary.
See how a global auto company halved response times with GCeasy.
3. You’ll Have an All-in-One JVM Troubleshooter
With GCeasy Enterprise Edition, you’re not just getting a GC log analyzer, you’re unlocking the entire performance diagnostics suite. That includes thread dump analysis, heap dump analysis, application log analysis, and more.
Even if you rarely analyze GC logs, chances are you’ll eventually need to troubleshoot memory leaks, deadlocks, or thread contention. Instead of switching between multiple tools or spending days on manual debugging, GCeasy gives you 360° visibility in one place. That means faster resolutions, fewer tool costs, and smarter problem-solving whenever those critical issues arise.
4. You’ll Catch Issues Early by Shifting Left With Micro-Metrics
Most teams rely on macro-metrics like CPU, memory, or response time, but these only reveal problems after users are already impacted. GCeasy changes that by tracking micro-metrics such as GC throughput, pause times, and collection patterns, early warning signals that often predict regressions before they escalate into production outages.
And here’s the real advantage: with GCeasy’s REST API, you can bring these micro-metrics directly into your CI/CD pipeline. That means every code change is automatically validated for GC health, catching performance regressions long before they hit production.
Even if you only analyze GC logs a few times a year, those rare checks can make the difference between a quick fix in staging and hours of costly downtime in production, protecting your revenue, customer trust, and team productivity.
Learn more about micro-metrics here .
A Few Customer Success Stories
Here are some success stories from companies that were once in the same evaluation stage you may be in today. Here’s what they achieved after adopting GCeasy.
- Insurance Platform Increased Throughput by 30%: An insurance company uncovered allocation bottlenecks through GCeasy, leading to significant throughput improvements.
- Telecom App Reduced GC Pause Time and CPU Load: Mobelium engineers used GCeasy to fine-tune memory settings & reduce GC pause time by 83%, and lower CPU utilization.
- Uber Saved 70,000 CPU Cores by Tuning Go GC: Uber’s engineering team used GCeasy’s GC insights to optimize Go-based applications, resulting in massive infrastructure savings.
- Robot Control System Became More Responsive: A robotics company diagnosed GC-induced latency using GCeasy and improved real-time performance in its robot control system.
- Young Gen Tuning Reduced GC Frequency and Cost: By identifying oversized young generation settings, a customer reduced GC frequency and improved app stability.
- Automobile Firm Improved Performance and User Experience: A major auto manufacturer leveraged GCeasy to detect over-allocation and streamline memory usage across their apps.
These stories showcase GCeasy’s impact on cutting computing costs, improving application performance, and resolving memory issues across multiple industries.
Fortune 500 Customers
GCeasy is trusted by industry-leading organizations to optimize Java application performance and reduce costs. Our clients include:
| Industry | Customers |
|---|---|
| Technology & Software Solutions | Apple Inc., Audiocodes, Cloudbees, Crowdstrike, Datastax, Dremio, Forgerock, Intuit, Jamf, jfrog, Micron, Miro, Nutanix, ON24, Pingidentity, Pinterest, Qualcomm, SAP, Saviynt, Sentry, Service Now, Zucchetti |
| Banking & Financial Services | Bloomberg, CBQ, Equilend, Evertec (Paytrue S.A), Flextrade Systems, Inc., ICE, IMC, MSCI, NAIC, QNB Finansbank A.Ş, SOCIETE GENERALE, TD Ameritrade, TD Bank, Wells Fargo, Westpac |
| Retail & E-commerce | FreshDirect, LVM, Revolveclothing, Teleflora, Walmart |
| Insurance | Cigna/ Evernoth, Delta Dental, Farmers Insurance, Metlife |
| Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals | Cerner (Oracle), GE Precision Healthcare, NHS.Scot |
| Telecommunications | Genesys Telecommunication Labs, Mobileum, Motorola, Telefonica |
| Automotive | Rivian, Toyota |
| Human Resources | Trinet, WorkDay |
| Travel & Hospitality | Kayak, Lifemiles (Avianca) |
Conclusion
In today’s fast-paced environments, even a single GC issue can snowball into lost revenue, unhappy customers, and extra stress for your engineering team. The reality is, you may not need GC analysis every day, but when you do, GCeasy gives you the deep insights and clarity to solve problems quickly and effectively.
Investing in GCeasy isn’t just about adding another tool to your stack. It’s about giving your team the confidence to tackle critical performance challenges head-on, while keeping costs under control, applications running faster, and systems more resilient.You can sign up for GCeasy here.
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