Kudos: Empowering researchers with time series data and the Elastic Stack

Kudos provides a free platform designed to help researchers enhance their communication strategies and reach broader audiences beyond traditional academic circles. By allowing researchers to create pages for their publications in plain language and track engagement metrics, Kudos bridges the gap in communicating research impact effectively. Facing limitations with their initial MySQL database for handling extensive data, Kudos transitioned to the Elastic Stack, which offered scalable solutions for time series data storage and visualization through Kibana and data ingestion via Logstash. The Elastic Stack enabled Kudos to integrate with publisher Manuscript Submission Systems, facilitating the tracking of manuscripts from submission through publication. The implementation of Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud minimized operational overhead and allowed easy scaling, benefiting both the engineering and account management teams by providing real-time data insights and flexible visualization capabilities.