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). All of these factors contributed to putting an unwieldy strain on their #elasticsearch solution, making it even more complex and hard to manage, but even more importantly, forcing the team to make difficult trade-offs between data retention and cost management. Keegan Standifer, Data Solutions Manager at CIG, shares more on how ChaosSearch is helping their #analytics team remove any future data retention limits and delivering new capabilities and flexibility to the analytics team.