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carsales Transitions to Cloud with Sumo Logic for Enhanced Application Health Monitoring
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Automotive
- Software
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Process Control & Optimization
- Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
- Remote Asset Management
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Data Science Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Transitioning from a traditional datacenter to the cloud, carsales was looking for a SaaS-based solution that would provide instant visibility into the health of applications in order to detect potential issues before they happen and ultimately reduce the impact to users. carsales needed a solution that avoided managing additional infrastructure or software, as their previous ELK stack had become a burden. They also required a system that could track application performance, visualize automated test results, and monitor machine and application health across their 150+ services.
About The Customer
Carsales.com Ltd (carsales) is Australia’s leading automotive classifieds website, servicing the private consumer space and over 6,000 dealers in Australia across multiple verticals. Based in Melbourne and with a team of over 450 staff, their mission is to connect buyers and sellers via a range of platforms and user-friendly products throughout their network of sites. Every month, the carsales website welcomes over 6 million unique visitors, processes over 450 million searches and serves over 12.5 billion image downloads. With operations across the Asia Pacific region, carsales is creating a strong presence abroad by investing in other players in automotive industries in Brazil, South Korea, Mexico, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand.
The Solution
carsales uses Sumo Logic’s cloud-native data analytics platform to gain full stack visibility and real-time insights into the status of their applications. Sumo Logic offers simple log querying and aggregation functions, customizable dashboards, and reporting and alerting capabilities. In just under three weeks, carsales deployed Sumo Logic to monitor over 100 servers. Teams were able to configure log alerts, create visual dashboards, and see trending metrics in real-time. This allowed any developer to access logs across the entire system within seconds and use Sumo Logic’s query language to analyze and easily drill down to find the source of any problem.
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