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	carsales Transitions to Cloud with Sumo Logic for Enhanced Application Health Monitoring

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
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. Read More
About 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. Read More
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. Read More Log in to view content
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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

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 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.

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.

Impact #1	Greater transparency has resulted in greater ownership over quality.
Impact #2	Proactive resolution of issues which may have otherwise not been detected.
Impact #3	Establishment of solid baselines and identification of breaches up to five times quicker.

Impact #1

Greater transparency has resulted in greater ownership over quality.

Impact #2

Proactive resolution of issues which may have otherwise not been detected.

Impact #3

Establishment of solid baselines and identification of breaches up to five times quicker.

Benefit #1	carsales website welcomes over 6 million unique visitors every month.
Benefit #2	Processes over 450 million searches monthly.
Benefit #3	Serves over 12.5 billion image downloads monthly.

Benefit #1

carsales website welcomes over 6 million unique visitors every month.

Benefit #2

Processes over 450 million searches monthly.

Benefit #3

Serves over 12.5 billion image downloads monthly.

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carsales Transitions to Cloud with Sumo Logic for Enhanced Application Health Monitoring

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