Elastic

Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch, the world's most widely used distributed search and analytics engine, and the creator of the Elastic Stack (formerly known as the ELK Stack). Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Elastic has built a comprehensive platform used by more than 20,000 paying subscribers and millions of free users worldwide across log management, security analytics, application performance monitoring, site search, and enterprise search use cases.

The Elastic Stack consists of Elasticsearch for distributed search and analytics, Kibana for visualization and user interface, Logstash for data ingestion and transformation, and Beats for lightweight data shippers. Together, these components form a flexible, horizontally scalable platform capable of ingesting and analyzing petabytes of data across virtually any use case. Elastic Cloud provides a fully managed version of the Elastic Stack on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, eliminating the operational overhead of running Elasticsearch clusters.

Elastic Security transforms the Elastic Stack into a comprehensive security information and event management (SIEM) and threat hunting platform. Elastic Security provides pre-built detection rules based on the Elastic Security research team's work and alignment with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, enabling security operations teams to detect sophisticated attacks across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments. Elastic Agent provides unified data collection from endpoints for both security and observability use cases on a single agent.

Elastic Observability provides integrated log analytics, infrastructure metrics monitoring, distributed tracing with APM, real user monitoring, and uptime monitoring within a single platform. Development and operations teams use Elastic Observability to correlate logs, metrics, and traces in real time, accelerating root cause analysis during incidents and providing full-stack visibility across microservices architectures.

Elastic Enterprise Search provides AI-powered search experiences for internal knowledge bases, product catalogs, customer-facing applications, and developer portals. App Search and Workplace Search are purpose-built solutions that simplify the implementation of relevant search experiences in SaaS applications and internal productivity tools respectively.