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title: "Drives confidently towards the cloud - Carsales case study"
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[ Customer stories ](https://www.sumologic.com/customers "All Resources")# carsales drives confidently towards the cloud with real-time insights from Sumo Logic 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.

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### 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.

### 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, as well as greatly benefits from its simple log querying and aggregation functions, customizable dashboards and reporting and alerting capabilities.

Michael Ridgway

Director of Engineering

“Now, our entire development team has real-time access and can get instant visibility into what’s going on within our environment at any time. ”

[](https://www.sumologic.com/case-studies/carsales)

### Results

Greater transparency has resulted in greater ownership over quality. Proactive resolution of issues which may have otherwise not been detected

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