Real-time ingestion and visualization of audit logs
As part of its traceability and compliance requirements, Europol needed a robust solution for collecting, indexing, and visualizing audit logs in real time.
Project objectives
- Enable continuous and reliable monitoring of system and application events.
- Centralize log data for anomaly detection, security auditing, and regulatory compliance.
- Ensure architecture scalability to cope with ever-increasing data volumes.

Key Steps
High-performance indexing with Elasticsearch Data Streams
enabling continuous log ingestion and efficient volume management over long periods of time.
Creation of interactive dashboards via Kibana
facilitating data visualization, dynamic reporting, and real-time alert management.
Migration of the ELK infrastructure to version 8.9
ensuring compatibility with the latest security and performance features.
Deployment automation
via Puppet and service orchestration on a Kubernetes cluster, ensuring high availability and simplified maintenance.
Project Details
Execution Date:
November 2022 – April 2023
Client
Europol
Location
Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, South Holland province, Netherlands.