Scalable Log Management with Elastic CCR

The challenge

A German luxury automotive manufacturer runs an extensive suite of connected services and digital platforms beyond vehicle production, and needed secure, scalable log management to support global operations and compliance. Multiple independent log solutions had left the client with poor availability and scalability.

Growing data volumes demanded structured ingestion and efficient storage — the existing setup couldn’t keep up with either the scale or the high-availability bar the business needed.

What we delivered

SquareShift deployed Elasticsearch clusters with bi-directional cross-cluster replication, sized to ingest 100GB of log data a day from multiple applications while retaining 18TB across hot, warm, and cold tiers. The 16-node architecture was built to support both production and non-production environments.

The team implemented ingest pipelines, retention policies, and secure, role-based Kibana dashboards, giving the client one governed way to manage access across its now-unified log platform.

The payoff

The client now runs a 16-node Elasticsearch cluster with bi-directional replication, ingesting 100GB of data a day and retaining 18TB across tiered storage — a single, high-availability platform in place of multiple disconnected log solutions.

Secure, role-based Kibana dashboards give teams governed access to the data they need, and the replication architecture keeps the client’s global operations and compliance requirements covered without a single point of failure.