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Elastic Search

byElastic
in
4.5
Market Presence: Enterprise AI Search, Enterprise Search Engines (Transitioning to Enterprise AI Search)

Overview

Product Information on Elastic Search

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Elastic Search?

Elastic Search is a software that enables full-text search, structured search, and analytics across diverse data types. It is designed to index, search, and analyze large volumes of data quickly and in near real time. The software supports a distributed architecture for handling data across multiple servers and provides RESTful APIs for integration with other applications. Elastic Search addresses business needs such as log and event data analysis, enterprise search, and operational monitoring by supporting scalable queries, aggregation, filtering, and data visualization. Its schema-free design allows for flexible data ingestion from various sources, making it suitable for varied use cases including search engines, application performance monitoring, and security analytics.

Elastic Search Pricing

Elastic Search software uses a tiered pricing model that includes both free and paid subscription options. The software is available under an open-source license with additional features available in paid plans, structured by resource consumption, functionality, and support levels. Pricing may vary based on deployment choices such as cloud or self-managed environments.

Overall experience with Elastic Search

Group Product Manager
500M - 1B USD, Media
FAVORABLE

“Elastic Search Platform Offers High Flexibility and excellent customization”

4.0
Feb 26, 2026
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DIRECTOR OF DEVOPS
50M - 250M USD, Software
CRITICAL

“Experience Remains Average as Platform Struggles to Evolve Beyond Core Offerings”

3.0
Nov 12, 2025
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Key Insights

A Snapshot of What Matters - Based on Validated User Reviews

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About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Elastic enables organizations to securely harness search-powered AI so anyone can find the answers they need in real-time using all their data, at scale. By integrating AI with search technology, it facilitates the discovery of actionable insights from large volumes of both structured and unstructured data, addressing the need for real-time, scalable data processing. Our Elasticsearch Platform delivers search-powered AI for observability, security and search. Companies can now solve real-time business problems and achieve better business outcomes by taking advantage of massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, securing and protecting private information more effectively, and optimizing infrastructure and talent resources more efficiently. Elastic’s complete, easy-to-use cloud-based platform offers solutions in search, security, and observability, aimed at aiding businesses in leveraging AI technology securely and effectively.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2012
Head office location
Mountain View, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Annual Revenue
1B-3B USD
Website
http://www.elastic.co

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Elastic Search Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(142 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
53%
4 Star
43%
3 Star
3%
2 Star
1%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • Group Product Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Elastic Search Platform Offers High Flexibility and excellent customization

    4.0
    Feb 26, 2026
    Elastic have been an exceptional partner to us for several years now. Whilst the account teams have evolved around us, they have always been outstanding in their support for our use cases, pilots and ideas - and have co-partnered with us on delivering useful and relevant information and training to our technical teams.
  • Group Product Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Elastic Search Platform Offers High Flexibility and excellent customization

    4.0
    Feb 26, 2026
    Elastic have been an exceptional partner to us for several years now. Whilst the account teams have evolved around us, they have always been outstanding in their support for our use cases, pilots and ideas - and have co-partnered with us on delivering useful and relevant information and training to our technical teams.
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Performance of Elastic Search Across Market Features

Elastic Search Likes & Dislikes

Like

The flexibility of the platform is what stands out the very most - got an idea, then Elastic can likely help whether it's through bring your own integrations, or the flexibility of the platform to be able to build what you want on it

Like

The flexibility of the platform is what stands out the very most - got an idea, then Elastic can likely help whether it's through bring your own integrations, or the flexibility of the platform to be able to build what you want on it

Like

The flexibility of the platform is what stands out the very most - got an idea, then Elastic can likely help whether it's through bring your own integrations, or the flexibility of the platform to be able to build what you want on it

Dislike

Admin portal and UI features are very limited and hardly any scope for customisation for the end user. They use instance name auto and do not give any option to update the name and these names are not even in sequence, monitoring data of cluster is very limited. There is no auto healing feature, if a cluster is unhealthy, it remains like that only.

Dislike

Admin portal and UI features are very limited and hardly any scope for customisation for the end user. They use instance name auto and do not give any option to update the name and these names are not even in sequence, monitoring data of cluster is very limited. There is no auto healing feature, if a cluster is unhealthy, it remains like that only.

Dislike

Admin portal and UI features are very limited and hardly any scope for customisation for the end user. They use instance name auto and do not give any option to update the name and these names are not even in sequence, monitoring data of cluster is very limited. There is no auto healing feature, if a cluster is unhealthy, it remains like that only.