Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) is a prominent video game development company known for its ambitious project, Star Citizen, which aims to be an open-world, massively multiplayer online space simulation game. As a result of the game's popularity, all the metrics, events, and logs, generated to track every single action during gameplay, also experienced explosive growth in terms of volume and also in diversity (a consequence of the dynamic and fast-paced development environment).

At ChaosSearch search, we have a mantra. Keep all your data. Why? Because more often than not data has value has meaning certainly at some point in time and until that moment, it can look worthless, even chaotic without the right context. A perfect example is the Rosetta stone.

You can expect data pipeline challenges at scale. But you can also solve for it. Here's how.

The team wanted something simple that they could use with existing, low-cost storage options, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. Instead of implementing a massive volume of solid-state drives (SSDs) to write logs, the team needed a simpler and more cost-effective solution that would keep cloud infrastructure in place for availability and geo-diversity across markets. Today, ChaosSearch helps the team store and query long-term data at 0.1% of the cost of other leading technology stacks.

Now you can actually have a conversation with your data! The Chaos AI Assistant is a breakthrough feature that elevates log and event data analytics. Seamlessly integrating with the ChaosSearch Platform, it utilizes AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), enabling you to talk to your data to unveil actionable insights.