The document discusses managing security events at scale using Elasticsearch. Some key points: - The author manages security logs for customers, collecting, correlating, storing, indexing, analyzing, and monitoring over 1 million events per second. - Before Elasticsearch, traditional databases couldn't scale to billions of logs, searches took days, and advanced analytics weren't possible. Elasticsearch allows customers to access and search logs in real-time and perform analytics. - Their largest Elasticsearch cluster has 128 nodes indexing over 20 billion documents per day totaling 800 billion documents. They use Hadoop for long term storage and Spark and Kafka for real-time analytics.