ChaosSearch: Log Search Analytics, Signals More Breakthroughs in 2020

ChaosSearch, Inc. announced a strong close to FY 2019.

Less than a year after launching its data platform, the company reported that its approach log analytics has transformed the way businesses store, search, and query a never-ending stream of machine data generated by SaaS and software-driven businesses, at high performance and low cost. The company also pointed to advancements in 2020 aimed at DevOps, data engineers, and product owners.

“It’s virtually impossible for businesses to get value out of rapidly growing data without breaking the bank. Legacy log analytics tool sets like the ELK Stack require massive resources to build and manage, are a bear to scale, and have prohibitive data retention costs,“ said Les Yetton, CEO. “Chaossearch changed all that in 2019 with the only data platform that’s 100% based on durable cloud storage. We revolutionized log data analytics by transforming the customer’s own cheap and secure Amazon S3 object storage into a database with high performance, infinite scale, very low price, and universal access.“

“Log analytics architectures are broken. Chaossearch is an entirely new approach. It’s a complete ELK stack delivered as a managed service without the cost, complexity or instability of an Elasticsearch database. It’s based on our new indexing engine and distributed compute fabric running completely on the user’s Amazon S3 cloud storage. With integrated Kibana and all the APIs companies need, Chaossearch is a highly performant, scalable alternative to ELK at 20% of the cost,” said Thomas Hazel, CTO and founder. “Stay tuned for more innovations in 2020 that make it exceedingly easy and cost-effective for IT ops, product owners, and engineers to get timely insights into applications, infrastructure, and security.“

“Chaossearch has completely transformed the way we see, analyze, store, and manage data at Transeo. Due to the nature of the student educational records we work with, we need to retain all data and log files for ten years after their creation to comply with our most stringent client retention policies,“ said Jimmy McDermott, CTO, Transeo. “The Chaossearch platform has helped us ground our product decisions in data because searching through access logs and spreadsheets that are far too big for Excel is now as simple as clicking a button. I wish that we had Chaossearch from day one. I highly recommend the platform for anyone looking to genuinely increase their understanding of their data while reducing their storage, query, and analytics costs.“

2019 innovations and achievements include:

Chaos index – A multi-model indexing technology that unifies and compresses data up to 90%, while removing the limits, cost, and complexity of conventional solutions by leveraging cloud storage as a backing store.
Distributed architecture that separates compute from storage. First in log analytics, customers can scale compute and storage resources independently based on data volume, and have flexibility to add users, data, and workloads.
Built on cloud storage – the company leverages cloud storage as a back end data store. Cloud storage is scalable, secure, distributed, and inexpensive.
Disruptive pricing – Based on a new index, architecture, and approach, it is able to deliver performance log analytics at a reduction in costs up to 80% compared to conventional solutions.
Security – HIPAA-and PCI-compliant plus Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type I certification, all of which validate that the firm’s platform meets data security and privacy standards.

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The company’s solution is a multi-API, cloud-native data platform that turns durable cloud storage into an intelligent, performance search and analytic database. Unlike other vendor offerings, customers do not move data into the solution. They dump data into their own cloud storage, such as on Amazon S3, where it discovers and indexes it, providing instant search and analytics across multiple terabytes of data. And since it’s based on cloud storage data retention is not an issue. Customers can search months and years of data at performance and low cost.

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About Chaossearch
Chaossearch is a new approach to log analytics. Delivered as a fully managed and scalable cloud service, it is an ELK-compatible logging platform that delivers performance at a low price. Based on a new multi-API indexing technology and distributed compute fabric on cloud storage, it is designed for businesses grappling with the cost and complexity of rapidly growing machine data. It is committed to an open API standard. The firm is a privately-held, Boston, MA, company backed by .406 Ventures, Glasswing Ventures, and Stage 1 Ventures.

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