What is Elastic?
Elastic's security documentation describes ingesting security data, detecting threats and investigating alerts. Elastic also offers endpoint and cloud security capabilities; the exact enabled functions depend on deployment and subscription.
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: Elastic Security guide, Elastic Security overview.
Key capabilities
- Event ingestion: Collect relevant endpoint, network and cloud events.
- Detection: Apply rules and review resulting alerts.
- Investigation: Pivot from an alert to its supporting data.
Security analytics and response sit on the broader Elastic data platform.
Choose the data sources and detection scenarios before evaluating dashboards. An SIEM is only as useful as the event fields and response workflow the team maintains.
A meaningful trial confirms that one noisy detection can be tuned and one important incident can be reconstructed from source events.
Technical details
- Access
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Open source
- Founded
- 2012
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam, Netherlands (dual HQ with Mountain View, USA)
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- API
- Available
- Website
- www.elastic.co ↗
Official resources
What to verify for your environment
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- Confirm current features, licensing and support terms with the publisher.
- Validate deployment, data location, access control, backup and recovery requirements.
- Test integrations, export paths and a representative operational workflow before committing.
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