Elastic
By Elastic
Elastic is the company behind the open-source Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats, often called the "ELK Stack" — providing search, observability, and security analytics products built on that stack.
Definition
Elastic is the company behind the open-source Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats, often called the "ELK Stack" — providing search, observability, and security analytics products built on that stack.
Overview
Elastic grew out of the Elasticsearch project and now offers both open-source components and a managed cloud service (Elastic Cloud), alongside commercial solutions layered on top for observability and security use cases. Elasticsearch provides the distributed search and analytics engine at the core of the stack, Logstash and Beats handle data ingestion and shipping, and Kibana provides visualization and dashboards. Together they form a pipeline for collecting, storing, searching, and visualizing logs, metrics, and other operational data. Elastic's products are widely used for log analytics, full-text search, security information and event management (SIEM), and application and infrastructure observability — often positioned as an alternative or complement to tools like Grafana and Loki, or commercial platforms like Splunk. Elastic N.V. is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker ESTC.
Key Features
- Elasticsearch — distributed search and analytics engine at the core of the stack
- Kibana — visualization and dashboarding layer for exploring data
- Logstash and Beats — data ingestion, parsing, and shipping tools
- Elastic Cloud — managed hosting of the Elastic Stack across major cloud providers
- Elastic Observability — APM, logs, and infrastructure monitoring built on the stack
- Elastic Security — SIEM and endpoint security analytics
- Open-source core with additional commercial features available under Elastic's license