Elastic (ELK) is the search-powered stack of Elasticsearch, Logstash/Beats, and Kibana, widely used for log management, search, and analytics. Founded in 2012, it is aimed at teams analyzing logs and other search data, and is available open-source and self-hostable as well as managed via Elastic Cloud. It offers a free, open Basic tier and includes live tail, alerting, and index-lifecycle retention tiers. Elasticsearch is offered under an OSI-approved license alongside its other licenses, and the platform holds SOC2, ISO27001, and HIPAA compliance, serving both startups and enterprises.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2012
- Pricing tier
- Mid
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Log management
- Free tier
- Yes: Free/open Basic tier; self-host free.
- Open-source
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Live tail / search
- Yes
- Alerting
- Yes
- Retention tiers
- Yes