Government Organization Cuts Infrastructure by 85% (and Simplifies Its Migration to Google SecOps with Axoflow)

Migrating to a new SIEM platform can be complex—especially for large organizations handling massive data volumes across hybrid infrastructures. For one government organization with over 20,000 employees, the challenge was clear: their existing log collection setup was underperforming, costly, and blind to critical data gaps. With Axoflow’s observability and security data pipeline management platform, they stabilized their entire pipeline, reduced infrastructure by 85%, cut log volume by 40%, and achieved a seamless migration to Google SecOps—all within days.

The Challenge: Performance Bottlenecks and Costly Data Overload

The organization’s security and infrastructure teams were battling twin challenges: unreliable log ingestion and ballooning SIEM costs. Their data collection layer suffered from:

• Performance issues and frequent message drops
• Limited visibility into data producers and their security detection layers
• Gaps in log coverage due to unstable collection tools
• High infrastructure overhead, even without integrating every data source

Data growth was another pressing issue. Year over year, log volume and associated SIEM licensing costs were rising sharply—yet a large portion of the ingested data wasn’t even security-relevant.

Their security leadership decided it was time to:

• Reduce infrastructure and SIEM costs by filtering redundant data
• Improve visibility into log sources and the overall pipeline

Migrate to Google SecOps, ensuring a reliable, future-proof security operations stack

Axoflow significantly reduced our infrastructure footprint and operational complexity. It allowed us to migrate to a new SIEM seamlessly while handling 5× more data than before.

The Axoflow Solution: Reliable Data Collection Meets Real-Time Visibility

After on-site testing confirmed Axoflow’s superior performance, deployment was swift, followed by a few days to onboard all data sources. The solution included three key components:

• Event log collection from Windows – handling 30–40k EPS peaks with zero drops
• AxoRouter – aggregator nodes (handling peaks over 90k eps on a single node)  to automatically classify, normalize, and reduce syslog, WEC, and other data before forwarding to Google SecOps
• AxoConsole (SaaS) – the unified dashboard for configuring the pipeline, and monitoring and analyzing its performance

This setup provided end-to-end observability and ensured complete control over data flows from every source—without the need for complex manual configurations.

Axoflow’s modular architecture made it easy to integrate seamlessly into the organization’s existing infrastructure—enabling smooth migration to their new Google SecOps environment.

The Impact: Cost Savings, Stability, and Full Observability

Within days of deployment, the results were substantial:

• 85% reduction in infrastructure requirements
• 40% decrease in log data volume (Firewall, DNS, and Windows)
• Reliable log collection on Windows at high EPS peaks
• End-to-end visibility into ingestion, processing, and delivery
• Automatic classification and enrichment for Google SecOps compatibility
• Immediate detection and remediation of malformed or misconfigured sources

Using AxoConsole, the team gained full insight into pipeline health, endpoint metrics, and data distribution—making troubleshooting and optimization faster than ever.

Future-Ready Security Operations with Axoflow

By migrating to Google SecOps with Axoflow, this government organization not only stabilized its data collection pipeline but also built a scalable foundation for long-term observability and cost efficiency. The Axoflow platform continues to give the team a clear view of their data ecosystem—empowering them to maintain compliance, performance, and visibility at scale.

Key Takeaway

Axoflow simplified what could have been a months-long SIEM migration into a matter of days, delivering immediate operational and cost benefits. With 85% less infrastructure, 40% lower data volume, and 100% more visibility, this organization’s journey to Google SecOps is a model for efficient, modern observability in government environments.