Case Study: Leading IoT Company scales to 3 TB/day ingest and halves TCO with Apica

How a Leading Iot Company Reined in Highvolume Data Sources and Managed Logs Better At Scale

A leading IoT platform provider delivering a managed cloud PaaS for device management faced rapidly growing log volumes (about 3 TB/day) and needed scalable aggregation, longer retention, tighter governance, and partner-restricted access without ballooning storage costs. Elasticsearch proved too costly and operationally heavy, and their SaaS log solution capped at 400 GB/day, so they sought a single PaaS solution that preserved data ownership, offered enterprise RBAC, and handled ingestion surges affordably.

Apica PaaS was deployed within the client’s Oracle Cloud accounts with Apica-managed infrastructure, SSO via Okta, and native integrations (Prometheus, Athena) to consolidate ingestion; S3-backed storage and lifecycle policies enabled on‑demand retention, namespace RBAC and separate OEM clusters secured partner access, and alerts were routed to Opsgenie. The result: sustained ingestion of 3 TB/day (and billions of logs), 4x more unified data per month, retention beyond the previous 7‑day limit at roughly 1/4 the storage cost, ~50% TCO reduction, 8x ROI and 100% uptime over 90 days.