Case Study: AAA Life cuts troubleshooting time 80% with Astro and Cosmos
Key results
The challenge
AAA Life Insurance serves over 1.6 million policyholders. Its analytics team relied on GitHub Actions for orchestration but outgrew it due to weak logging, alerting, and visualization. Debugging required rerunning entire pipelines, making daily SLAs for critical reports hard to meet.
The solution
AAA Life adopted Astro, built on Apache Airflow, and integrated Cosmos to manage dbt workflows, gaining granular visibility into transformations and the ability to recover from specific failure points rather than full reruns.
“Since adopting Astro with Cosmos, we've rescued countless failed dbt jobs and still met our SLAs.”
JBJosh BickmeyerManager of Analytics Engineering, AAA Life
The results, in context
After adopting Astro with Cosmos, AAA Life reported an 80% reduction in troubleshooting time and 99%+ attainment of its daily data-freshness SLA. The team moved from its previous orchestration solution to production in under 90 days.