Elastic

Search & Data Analytics

Founded in 2012 by the creators of Elasticsearch, Elastic builds powerful search-powered solutions for enterprise search, observability, and security.

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Quick Facts

Founded: 2012
Founders: Shay Banon, Steven Schuurman, Uri Boness, Simon Willnauer
Headquarters: Mountain View & Amsterdam
Industry: Enterprise Search & Observability

About Elastic

Elastic was built on the foundation of Elasticsearch, an incredibly popular open-source search engine created by Shay Banon. Initially built to help his wife search a recipe app, the technology proved capable of searching through massive amounts of unstructured data in milliseconds.

Today, the Elastic Stack (formerly ELK stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is used by thousands of organizations globally. The company has evolved its core search capabilities into three primary enterprise solutions: Enterprise Search, Observability (logging, metrics, APM), and Security (SIEM and endpoint protection).

What Elastic Does

Enterprise Search

Powerful search capabilities embedded into apps, websites, and internal corporate environments.

Observability

Unified logs, metrics, and traces allowing teams to monitor their entire ecosystem in real-time.

Elastic Security

Combining SIEM and endpoint security to detect, investigate, and respond to threats at scale.

Elastic Cloud

The fully managed service of the Elastic Stack available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

Career Areas

Types of professional roles found inside Elastic.

Software Engineering
Product Management
Sales & Field Operations
Marketing
Consulting & Support
Design

Elastic's History

2010
Elasticsearch released
Shay Banon releases the first version of the open-source Elasticsearch project.
2012
Company Founded
Elastic is founded in Amsterdam to provide commercial backing and cloud services for the project.
2015
Kibana and Logstash integrated
The company formalizes the 'ELK Stack' into a unified product suite.
2018
IPO
Elastic goes public on the New York Stock Exchange.

Purpose & Values

“Because search is foundational”

Elastic believes that search is a foundational technology. Whether you're looking for an Uber, debugging a complex application, or hunting a cyber threat, Elastic's mission is to make data actionable in real-time.

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