"Before Elasticsearch enabled The Guardian to develop Ophan, we used a traditional analytics package which had a fourhour lag, Trying to get data out of it was horrendous. It was painfully slow. So the ability to see the results of what we did, to have any clue at all, just wasn’t there. We were shooting in the dark."
“We started pulling in all kinds of logs: web server logs, application logs, system logs, load balancer logs. What we soon realized was all the analytics that we could get with this. No longer did we look at servers individually, but we looked at the system.”
"The power of Elastic’s machine learning capabilities enriches the user search experience in the areas of recommendations and discovery."
"There are so many logs that we have to collect, from the overall infrastructure, to how users are clicking within the platform, or how requests are made to different APIs."
"The Elastic Stack enables us to manage incidents and errors across the entire lifecycle, from logging and visualization, to replay and resolution."
"Watchers are really helpful for analysing mission-critical streaming data. I can create a watcher that alerts us with an email or a Slack message when a data clean-up fails. That's just one example, the possibilities are endless."