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A Healthcare and Life Sciences Company Rebuilds Kubernetes Monitoring With ML-Based AIOps

SquareShift moved 207 dashboard panels to Elastic Agent, tagged noisy container logs for removal, and added ML anomaly detection.

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207dashboard panels migrated to Elastic Agent
14.2%log volume identified for removal, zero errors lost
7ML detectors replacing static alert thresholds

Client

A healthcare and life sciences company running a Kubernetes estate, monitored through Elasticsearch.

Industry

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Services

ObObservability & Reliability

Stack

OpenTelemetry · Elastic Agent · Elasticsearch · Kubernetes · Terraform

How SquareShift delivered it.

01

Project context

Monitoring had grown across two incompatible setups that platform teams could no longer trust. SquareShift rebuilt it on what the client actually runs, adding log-noise tagging and ML anomaly detection.

02

Project objectives

Rebuild dashboards on Elastic Agent data.

Reduce log noise safely and replace fixed thresholds with anomaly detection.

03

Solution delivery

SquareShift moved 207 dashboard panels from OpenTelemetry to Elastic Agent, matching the originals across five connected staging clusters.

It built a log pipeline that tags noise and keeps errors, and tested it on 934,077 real log records with zero errors affected.

It added seven ML detectors for crash loops and memory leaks, moved alert rules into Terraform, and handed over documentation.

04

The outcome

The rebuilt monitoring matches the originals across five connected staging clusters. It was tested on 934,077 real log records, with zero errors affected.

“
Nothing was built on an assumption that could be checked against live data.

Principal Consultant, SquareShift

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