Case Study: European Government delivers COVID-19 stimulus checks on time with Elastic

How a European country embraced Elastic to process COVID-19 stimulus checks

The European Government was running aging monolithic platforms in old data centers that couldn’t scale, causing public tax services to buckle under demand and frustrate taxpayers. Facing the added pressure of a COVID-19 stimulus program with only one month to launch, it needed a faster, more reliable digital services approach and turned to Elastic for observability.

Elastic implemented the Elastic Platform/Elastic Stack with logging, metrics, and alerting to help the agency monitor and operate critical services. This helped the European Government meet the tight deadline, process COVID-19 funding for tens of thousands of people, handle 130 services and 2.3 billion transactions a year, and scale data nodes smoothly; the result was strong end-user satisfaction, improved performance testing, and positive media coverage.