Case Study: A European National Police Force Achieves Unified, Searchable Data Management with Elastic

Uniting data to better serve the public with Elastic

The European National Police Force, with 65,000 officers and 2,000 IT professionals, needed a central, searchable repository for infrastructure, application, and audit logs. To support DevOps, investigators, and security teams, it turned to Elastic to build a scalable data lake that could handle rapidly growing log volumes and enforce controlled access.

Using the Elastic platform and Elastic Consulting, the agency implemented tiered hot, warm, cold, and frozen storage with role-based access controls. The solution is designed to grow to 350 applications and about 75TB of ingest per day over the next two years, while already processing 2.5TB today, making log management more efficient and enabling anomaly detection, misuse investigations, and long-term retention at lower cost.