Elastic, founded in 2012, is a software company that builds tools for search, observability, and security. Its core offering, the Elastic Stack, is a suite of open-source products including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. These tools are used for enterprise search, logs management, metrics analysis, and security analytics.
The company's technology is widely adopted, with its platform used by over 50% of the Fortune 500. Elastic operates as a distributed organization, with its team, known as Elasticians, spread across more than 30 countries. The company maintains a commitment to open-source development and transparent, collaborative work.
Elastic's technical domains span search, observability, security, and artificial intelligence. The platform is designed to help organizations process and derive insights from large volumes of data across these areas.
