Elasticsearch Assessment

See What's Wrong With Your Cluster — Before It Becomes a Crisis

Our certified Elastic engineers put expert eyes on your deployment in 1–2 business days. You leave with a prioritized action plan, quick wins your team can implement this week, and an executive summary your CTO can actually use. 24-hour response SLA on all requests.

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Elastic Innovation Award 2023
60+ Deployments
24-Hour Response SLA

Elasticsearch Drift Is Invisible Until It Isn't

Clusters tuned at launch grow stale. Data volumes increase, indices accumulate, query patterns evolve — and the problems compound silently until a metric crosses a line that embarrasses someone.

Queries That Were Fast Aren't Anymore

Your team knows something changed. Latency climbed from 200ms to 900ms. Root cause is elusive — could be shard distribution, query structure, hardware, or mapping drift. Without a comparative baseline, diagnosis takes months.

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Storage Costs Growing 40% Year Over Year

New indices, stale data, unoptimized lifecycle policies. The bill is climbing and nobody has the cycles to diagnose exactly why — or prove the savings opportunity to finance.

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An Audit Is Coming and You're Not Certain You'll Pass

RBAC configured at launch. Team has doubled since. Audit logging gaps you haven't inventoried. The security posture you started with may not be the security posture you have now.

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What You Get in 1–2 Days

Cluster & Topology Assessment
Architecture review, mapping analysis, shard distribution, and index lifecycle evaluation against production benchmarks.
Performance Benchmarking
Query latency analysis, indexing throughput review, and resource utilization diagnostics across your cluster stack.
Cost Analysis & TCO Projection
Current spend vs. optimized spend. Storage cost projection with Log Reduction Engine analysis. 3-year TCO comparison.
Security Posture Review
RBAC audit, encryption configuration, audit logging gap identification. Read-only access — no write permissions required.
Compliance Readiness Snapshot
SOC2, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA gap identification if applicable. Gives you the picture before your auditors do.
Prioritized Remediation Roadmap
Top 10 recommendations with effort/impact scores: quick wins (this week), high-impact (next sprint), long-term strategic.

Sample output available — see exactly what you'll receive before you commit.

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The Health Check Process: 5 Steps, 1–2 Days

Step 1
Kickoff Call
30 minutes. We align on scope, priority areas, and access requirements. You define what keeps you up at night.
Step 2
Data Collection
Read-only API access to cluster health endpoints, Kibana dashboards, and index metadata. NDA signed before access.
Step 3
Expert Analysis
Your cluster, reviewed by a Principal Architect and Senior Engineer against benchmarks from 60+ deployments.
Step 4
Report Preparation
Prioritized action plan with effort/impact scoring, 3-year TCO model, and 2-page executive summary PDF.
Step 5
Readout & Q&A
60-minute executive presentation with your team. Recorded and delivered. Every finding, answered.

What Each Deliverable Includes

Quick Wins section identifies changes your team can implement this week — no further engagement required beyond the health check.

We review your cluster architecture from the ground up — node roles, shard allocation, replica configuration, and index mapping against your data volume and query patterns. We compare against production benchmarks from similar deployments.

FINDING: Primary shard count (847) exceeds optimal ceiling for current heap (31GB). Recommend consolidation to <200 shards. Estimated latency improvement: 30–40%.
Time to value: Architecture findings delivered in written report. Implementation guidance included.

Query latency profiling across your most frequent query patterns. Indexing throughput analysis. Resource utilization review (CPU, memory, disk I/O). Identification of query patterns causing hot spots or timeout risk.

FINDING: 3 query patterns account for 72% of p99 latency. All three use scripted fields on high-cardinality indices. Recommend field data type migration. Estimated p99 improvement: 4× (900ms → 220ms).
Time to value: Specific queries identified; your team can begin optimization immediately.

Storage spend analysis by index tier. Identification of hot/warm/cold lifecycle policy gaps. Log Reduction Engine pre-assessment: estimated storage reduction with intelligent sampling. 3-year TCO model (current vs. optimized).

FINDING: 34% of stored data is older than 90 days with no lifecycle policy. Estimated annual waste: $47K. Log Reduction Engine projection: 55–65% storage cost reduction.
Time to value: Savings opportunity quantified — usable for budget conversations immediately.

RBAC audit (role assignments, privilege creep, unused accounts). Encryption-in-transit and at-rest configuration review. Audit logging completeness assessment. Read-only access throughout — no write permissions ever required.

FINDING: 12 user accounts have cluster:admin privileges. Only 2 are active engineers. Recommend privilege reduction. RBAC template included in recommendations.
Time to value: Security gaps identified before your next audit cycle.

If SOC2, PCI-DSS, or HIPAA is in scope, we map your current configuration against the relevant controls. You receive a gap list — not a pass/fail verdict, a specific remediation checklist for your audit prep.

FINDING: Audit logging enabled on 6/9 required node types. 3 data nodes missing audit event configuration. Remediation: 30 minutes.
Time to value: Know your audit gaps before your auditors do.

All findings organized by effort and impact. Top 10 recommendations with clear categories: Quick Wins (implement this week, <4 hours each), High-Impact (next sprint), Long-Term Strategic (roadmap items). Plus: 2-page executive summary PDF formatted for leadership.

QUICK WIN #1: Enable _forcemerge on 23 closed indices. Estimated storage saving: 18%. Time required: 90 minutes.
Time to value: Roadmap is ready for your next sprint planning session.

What Teams Find

SquareShift's health check identified $200K in annual savings we hadn't seen. The assessment paid for itself 20x over. Three quick wins were in production the following week.

— VP Engineering, E-commerce Company

$200K
Savings Identified
2-Day
Turnaround
20x
ROI
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Common Questions

Read-only API access only — no write permissions, ever. We access cluster health endpoints, index metadata, and Kibana dashboards. NDA is signed before any access is granted. We work within your security policies and can discuss access protocols before you commit.
We've found critical issues before — and we know how to prioritize them without causing panic. Critical findings are walked through in the readout session with clear remediation steps. If an emergency fix is required, we can scope a rapid remediation engagement. We've never left a team with a critical finding and no path forward.
Yes — transparently. 15 of our last 20 health checks identified an implementation or migration opportunity. If you proceed with a larger engagement within 90 days, we credit the health check cost toward it. No obligation to proceed. Many customers take the report and implement recommendations with their own team. We respond to all demo and assessment inquiries within 24 hours.
Download our sample report before you commit. It's the same structure, the same analysis depth, and the same recommendation quality you'll receive. If it's not what you expected, don't book the assessment.

Related Accelerators

Log Reduction Engine → Blast Radius → Compliance Reporter →

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