Case Study: Stile Education improves product analytics and reduces log management toil with ChaosSearch

Stile Education retains logs for weeks to indefinitely with ChaosSearch

Stile Education, a science education technology company, faced significant challenges with its cumbersome and costly ELK stack. Their Elasticsearch cluster was difficult to maintain, frequently overloaded, and could only retain a couple weeks of log data, making it impossible to troubleshoot issues or analyze long-term user behavior. This hindered their ability to ensure a seamless experience for their educators and students.

By implementing the ChaosSearch data lake platform, Stile found a solution. ChaosSearch indexed their data directly in Amazon S3, eliminating the need for data movement and complex cluster management. This provided unlimited, cost-effective data retention and easy access via a Kibana interface. The results included major cost savings, a dramatic reduction in engineering toil, and the new ability to perform deep root cause analysis and gain product insights from long-term data. ChaosSearch also enhanced their security operations by enabling the indexing of database audit logs.

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