Case study
A National Health Ministry Monitors 6,000+ Devices on One Platform, Across Multiple Clouds and Air-Gapped Sites
How SquareShift deployed Elastic Observability with regional data hubs and custom plugins for legacy network and firewall devices.
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Client
A national health ministry running sensitive healthcare infrastructure across multiple clouds.
Industry
Government & Public Health
Services
Stack
Elastic Observability · Elastic Agent · Elastic Cloud · Kibana · ECS
How SquareShift delivered it.
The challenge
Legacy network and firewall devices had no native observability integrations.
Air-gapped sites needed reliable telemetry under strict data residency rules.
The client needed one platform to monitor 6,000+ devices across clouds and air-gapped environments, with reliable telemetry from sensitive healthcare infrastructure.
Solution delivery
SquareShift deployed Elastic Observability with an intermediate data-hub architecture.
Agents stream telemetry to regional data hubs that buffer and forward to Elastic Cloud. The hubs improve reliability across constrained and air-gapped network segments.
Custom Elastic Agent input plugins ingest data from legacy network and firewall devices.
Fields are normalized to ECS for unified search, correlation and alerting alongside modern cloud-native sources.
Operator personas (NetOps, SecOps and Infrastructure SRE) drive role-aligned Kibana dashboards, mapped to day-to-day operational workflows and incident response procedures.
The outcome
6,000+ devices are monitored on one platform, across multiple clouds and air-gapped sites.
Telemetry from legacy and air-gapped devices needs a path of its own. Regional data hubs buffer it, so delivery holds up on constrained networks.
Architect, SquareShift