Elastic NV, commonly known as Elastic, is a global software company specializing in search and data analytics solutions. Founded in 2012 by Shay Banon, Simon Willnauer, Uri Boness, and Steven Schuurman, Elastic emerged from an open-source project aimed at making large volumes of data easily searchable and actionable. Over time, the company expanded its offerings to address a broad array of use cases, including enterprise search, observability, security, and analytics. Elastic went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker ESTC, further solidifying its position as a leader in the search and analytics market.
At the core of Elastic’s technology stack is the Elastic Stack—comprised of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. Elasticsearch provides a distributed search and analytics engine capable of handling structured and unstructured data. Kibana offers real-time visualization and dashboarding, while Beats and Logstash function as lightweight data shippers and data processing pipelines, respectively. Together, these components enable organizations to ingest, store, analyze, and visualize vast streams of data in real time, from logs and metrics to full-text documents.
Building on its foundational products, Elastic delivers targeted solutions in areas such as Elastic Enterprise Search for e-commerce and workplace search experiences; Elastic Observability for infrastructure and application performance monitoring; and Elastic Security for threat detection, prevention, and response. These solutions are available both as self-managed deployments and as a fully managed service via Elastic Cloud. Elastic Cloud runs on major public cloud platforms—including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure—allowing customers to scale resources elastically and reduce operational overhead.
Elastic serves a diverse global customer base across sectors such as finance, healthcare, telecommunications, retail, and public sector. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company maintains offices in key regions including North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Since January 2022, Ashutosh “Ash” Kulkarni has led Elastic as Chief Executive Officer, guiding the development of new product innovations and driving growth through strategic partnerships. Under its leadership team and a growing community of contributors, Elastic continues to advance its mission of making data usable in real time and at scale.
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