Case Study: Vandis achieves rapid threat detection, proactive alerting, and role-based security with Elastic

VANDIS - Customer Case Study

Vandis, a New York–based technology reseller specializing in consultative architecture, security, and centralized logging, needed a dependable way to monitor large volumes of log data, enforce role‑based access, and detect incidents across customer networks before they escalated. With customers generating massive log volumes (about 1.2 billion documents in under 30 days) and complex multi‑vendor environments, Vandis faced frequent troubleshooting challenges and the risk of slow or misattributed root‑cause analysis.

They deployed Elastic commercial products—Shield for role‑based security, Watcher for alerting (tightly integrated with PagerDuty), Marvel for cluster monitoring, plus Beats and Kibana dashboards. The result: automated, continuous monitoring and fast alerts that enabled Vandis to detect outages and compromises before customers did (one NOC was notified ahead of their own alarms), isolate and remediate infected hosts in minutes, identify DNS failures within an hour, and reduce the time and effort spent building and maintaining homegrown tooling.

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Ryan Young

Director of Engineering