NosqlRevolution has spent 12+ years rescuing Elasticsearch and OpenSearch clusters that are sharded into oblivion, mapped like SQL tables, brought to their knees by one bad aggregation, or bleeding money in observability spend. If any of that sounds like your week, keep reading.
Over 12 Years of Production Experience
Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Elastic Observability, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Fluent Bit, and OpenTelemetry
Queries timing out, dashboards crawling, exports pinning the cluster, and adding nodes hasn't helped. It rarely does — the shape of the work is usually the problem.
Kafka, Beats, Fluent Bit, or Logstash are backing up and no one can point to where the pressure actually starts. We trace it end-to-end and tell you.
Elasticsearch isn't a SQL database. Shards aren't tables, indexes aren't free, and dynamic mapping drift compounds every week you ignore it.
Heap pressure, GC stalls, tripped circuit breakers, allocation failures, recovery storms, recurring yellow or red. We have debugged all of these in production. None of them are mysterious once you know where to look.
Log volume up and to the right, high-cardinality fields, duplicate telemetry, retention nobody owns, and three overlapping tools billing you for the same data.
Elastic Cloud moves, self-managed to OpenSearch, major version jumps, blue-green cutovers. We have done these without downtime — yours can go the same way.
We dig into slow, unstable, or expensive clusters and separate symptoms from structural causes: topology, shards, heap, recovery behavior, mappings, and the shape of the workload itself.
Learn More →Cut search latency, aggregation pressure, query fan-out, export bottlenecks, and indexing lag — without throwing more hardware at the problem.
Fix mapping debt, template drift, dynamic field explosions, oversharding, SQL-shaped data models, and index designs that don't match how the data actually gets queried.
Set practical boundaries across logs, metrics, and traces — Elastic Observability, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry — so you stop paying three vendors for the same signal.
Learn More →Cut duplicate logs, high-cardinality fields, useless ingestion, overlong retention, wrong storage tiers, and observability spend that nobody owns.
Plan Elastic Cloud moves, OpenSearch assessments, version jumps, blue-green cutovers, reindexing, validation, and rollback. We have done a lot of these without causing an outage.
See Packages →We help engineering, platform, and SRE teams take back control of Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and observability systems that have gotten away from them.
With 12+ years on the keyboard in production, we focus on diagnosis and implementation, not slideware: what's failing, why, what to do first, and what architecture will still hold up 12–24 months from now.
What we have actually done in production:
Tell us what's slow, unstable, expensive, or hard to explain. We'll help you spot the likely failure mode and the right first move.
Or email us directly at cbrown@nosqlrevolution.com