About Elastic
Elastic is the open source platform that powers search, observability, security, and more. It serves developers, operators, security teams, and data scientists who need to securely search, analyze, and visualize data at scale across cloud or on-prem deployments.

Key Features
Key capabilities and components include:
Open Source Search Stack
Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash enable fast, scalable search and data visualization across environments.
Search AI Platform
Generative AI-enabled search capabilities and a vector database to power AI workloads.
Observability & Security Suite
Unified monitoring and AI-driven security analytics for detection, investigation, and response.
AutoOps & Managed Experience
Automated operational insights and recommendations for Elasticsearch deployments, available with Elastic Cloud and self-managed options.
Summary
The primary value for developers, IT ops, and security teams is a single, open source based platform that unifies search, observability, and security analytics, enabling fast data discovery, monitoring, and threat detection across cloud and on‑prem environments.
Pricing
View pricingElastic Cloud Hosted
Resource based pricing / Pay as you go (monthly) or prepaid
- Full visibility and control over HW configuration
- Custom control over cluster capacity
- 99.95% Monthly Uptime SLA
Elastic Cloud Serverless
Usage based pricing / Pay as you go (monthly) or prepaid
- Fully managed environment
- Automatically scales up and down
- 99.95% Monthly Uptime SLA
Elastic Security - Self-managed
License based pricing / Depending on number of nodes and used RAM
- Full control over deployment location
- Custom control over cluster capacity
- Not applicable for SLA
Elastic Observability - Self-managed
License based pricing / Depending on number of nodes and used RAM
- Full control over deployment location
- Custom control over cluster capacity
- Not applicable for SLA
Elastic Enterprise
Ask for pricing / Annual
- Full solution capabilities
- Custom scaling options
- Premium support