Case Study: Cowbell reduces GitOps overhead and improves incident response with Akuity

Cowbell reduces GitOps overhead by 50–55% with Akuity

Cowbell, an InsurTech company, faced significant operational challenges as they scaled their use of open-source Argo CD across hundreds of applications. Their lean SRE team was spending over half its time managing the GitOps platform and debugging deployment failures, which diverted focus from core reliability work. To offload this operational overhead and reduce upgrade risks, Cowbell chose the managed GitOps platform Akuity.

By implementing Akuity and its Akuity Intelligence service, Cowbell connected four production clusters in a single day and gained superior visibility into deployments. The solution reduced the time SREs spent responding to deployment failures by 50-55% and enabled faster incident detection. This allowed Cowbell to scale their GitOps operations without scaling their team, freeing engineers to focus on business impact and reliability.

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