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AdidasAdidas Modernizes Application Health with Elastic
Adidas, a consumer discretionary organization in Germany, uses Elasticsearch from Elastic to support production support for SREs and developers.
Adidas asked for a cleaner operating picture of application health. Elastic is what they run.
“From Germany, consumer discretionary teams still had to serve customers and internal partners who expected a straight answer.”
“Elastic builds search, observability, and security software on Elasticsearch, used to find information and investigate operational data.”
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Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | Named workflow replaces ad hoc routing for application health |
| Capability | Production support stays visible to adjacent teams through Elasticsearch |
| Capability | SREs and developers work from the same Elasticsearch record for application health |
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Adidas grew application health faster than the local tools around it. From Germany, consumer discretionary teams still had to serve customers and internal partners who expected a straight answer. SREs and developers were the ones stitching the picture together by hand.
Rolling out Elasticsearch put production support on Elastic. Elastic builds search, observability, and security software on Elasticsearch, used to find information and investigate operational data. Adidas keeps the product in the path where work already happens, so SREs and developers do not context-switch into a graveyard system used only for audits.
The visible result is steadier production support. Application health is easier to inspect, and adjacent groups can join SREs and developers without a guided tour of someone's desktop.
