# Continuous Performance Monitoring for PHP - The tale of Blackfire at trivago

DevFeed: [Continuous Performance Monitoring for PHP - The tale of Blackfire at trivago](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/continuous-performance-monitoring-for-php-the-tale-of-blackfire-at-trivago-27955.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tech.trivago.com/post/2017-10-27-blackfire/>)

Author: Jorge Luis Betancourt Follow

Published: 2017-10-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Trivago](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/trivago.md>)

Topics: [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>), [saltstack](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/saltstack.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [YAML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/yaml.md>)

Tags: [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [datacenter](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datacenter.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [performance-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance-monitoring.md>), [php](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/php.md>), [provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/provisioning.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [visibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/visibility.md>), [yaml](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/yaml.md>)

## AI overview

Trivago describes adopting Blackfire to monitor and optimize the performance of its PHP application across development, QA, staging, and production. The article explains the tool's FreeBSD support, YAML-based performance tests, interface for finding bottlenecks, custom metrics, and SaltStack-based deployment with centralized agents.

## Source excerpt

We're a data-driven company. At trivago we love measuring everything. Collecting metrics and making decisions based on them comes naturally to all our engineers. This workflow also applies to performance, which is key to succeed in the modern Internet.