Elastic Stack

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Core Stack Components

Elasticsearch

Distributed search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene, providing full-text search, structured search, and analytics capabilities with horizontal scalability and near real-time performance.

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Logstash

Server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from multiple sources, transforms it, and sends it to your preferred destination with powerful filtering and parsing capabilities.

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FluentdFluent BitVectorFilebeatTelegraf
Kibana

Data visualization and exploration tool for Elasticsearch, providing interactive dashboards, charts, maps, and a management interface for the Elastic Stack.

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GrafanaApache SupersetRedashMetabaseTableau
Beats

Lightweight data shippers that send operational data from hundreds or thousands of machines to Logstash or Elasticsearch, with specialized beats for different data types.

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FluentdTelegrafVectorPrometheus ExportersStatsD
visibility

Observability

Elastic APM

Application Performance Monitoring solution built on the Elastic Stack for monitoring software services and applications in real-time, collecting performance metrics and errors.

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Datadog APMNew RelicDynatraceAppDynamicsJaeger
Uptime Monitoring

Active monitoring solution for tracking the availability and response times of services, websites, and APIs with alerting capabilities when services go down.

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PingdomUptimeRobotStatusCakeDatadog SyntheticsPrometheus Blackbox Exporter
Elastic Logs

Centralized logging solution for collecting, searching, and analyzing log data from all your systems and applications in one place with powerful search and correlation.

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Elastic Metrics

Infrastructure and application metrics monitoring for collecting, storing, and visualizing time-series data from your servers, containers, and services.

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PrometheusInfluxDBDatadogGraphiteVictoria Metrics
Elastic Synthetics

Synthetic monitoring for simulating user journeys and testing application workflows to proactively detect performance issues and broken functionality.

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Datadog SyntheticsPingdomNew Relic SyntheticsSeleniumPlaywright
security

Security

Elastic SIEM

Security Information and Event Management solution built on Elasticsearch for threat detection, investigation, and incident response with machine learning-powered analytics.

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Splunk Enterprise SecurityIBM QRadarArcSightLogRhythmSumo Logic SIEM
Endpoint Security

Comprehensive endpoint protection for preventing, detecting, and responding to threats on desktops, laptops, and servers with behavioral analysis and threat prevention.

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CrowdStrikeCarbon BlackSentinelOneMicrosoft DefenderCortex XDR
Security Analytics

Advanced security analytics platform leveraging machine learning and behavioral analytics to detect sophisticated threats and insider risks across your environment.

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Splunk UBAExabeamSecuronixGuruculMicrosoft Sentinel
Cloud Security

Cloud-native security posture management and threat detection for AWS, Azure, and GCP environments, identifying misconfigurations and security risks.

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Prisma CloudLaceworkWizOrca SecurityCloudGuard
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Data Processing

Ingest Pipelines

Pre-processing pipelines that transform and enrich documents before indexing, allowing you to parse, normalize, and enhance data as it enters Elasticsearch.

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Logstash FiltersVector TransformsFluentd FiltersApache NiFiStreamSets
Transforms

Continuous data transformation feature that creates entity-centric indexes from existing Elasticsearch indices, enabling pivot table-like aggregations and summarizations.

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Spark Structured StreamingFlink SQLksqlDBDatabricks Delta Live Tablesdbt
Enrich Processor

Ingest processor that enriches documents with data from existing indices, enabling you to augment incoming data with reference information during indexing.

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Logstash Lookup FiltersApache NiFi LookupRecordCustom ETL ScriptsStream EnrichmentRedis Lookups
Elasticsearch SQL

SQL interface for Elasticsearch that allows you to query your data using familiar SQL syntax instead of the native Query DSL, with JDBC and ODBC drivers.

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Apache DrillPrestoAthenaBigQuerySpark SQL
cloud

Infrastructure & Deployment

Elastic Cloud

Fully managed Elastic Stack as a service across AWS, Azure, and GCP with automated upgrades, backups, and scaling for simplified deployment and operations.

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ECK (Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes)

Kubernetes operator for orchestrating Elasticsearch, Kibana, APM Server, and Beats on Kubernetes with automated deployment, scaling, and lifecycle management.

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Prometheus OperatorGrafana OperatorStrimziCustom Helm ChartsRancher
Fleet

Centralized management for Elastic Agents, providing a web-based UI in Kibana for deploying, configuring, and monitoring agents across your infrastructure at scale.

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AnsiblePuppetChefSaltTerraform
Snapshot and Restore

Built-in backup and recovery system for Elasticsearch clusters, supporting incremental backups to various storage backends including S3, Azure, and GCS.

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VeleroKastenElasticsearch CuratorCustom Backup ScriptsCommVault
extension

Integrations & Agents

Elastic Agent

Unified agent for collecting logs, metrics, and security data, replacing multiple Beats with a single configurable agent managed centrally through Fleet.

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Filebeat

Lightweight shipper for forwarding and centralizing log data, monitoring log files and directories, and shipping them to Elasticsearch or Logstash.

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Metricbeat

Lightweight shipper for metrics that collects system and service metrics from servers, Docker, Kubernetes, databases, and other infrastructure components.

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TelegrafPrometheus Node ExportercAdvisorDatadog Agentcollectd
Packetbeat

Lightweight network packet analyzer that captures network traffic between application servers, decodes protocols, and correlates requests with responses.

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WiresharktcpdumpZeekSuricataMoloch
Heartbeat

Lightweight shipper for uptime monitoring that actively probes services to check whether they are available, measuring response time and service availability.

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Blackbox ExporterPingdomUptimeRobotNagiosZabbix
Auditbeat

Lightweight shipper for audit data that collects Linux audit framework data and monitors file integrity, detecting changes to critical files in real-time.

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Additional Tools

Rally

Macro-benchmarking framework for Elasticsearch that allows you to performance test your cluster with different configurations, track performance over time, and identify bottlenecks.

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Elasticsearch Curator

Tool for managing Elasticsearch indices and snapshots, automating tasks like deleting old indices, optimizing indices, and snapshot management based on configurable policies.

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ILM (Index Lifecycle Management)Custom ScriptsElastalertCurator-like ToolsCron Jobs
Machine Learning

Built-in machine learning capabilities for anomaly detection, forecasting, and data frame analytics, automatically identifying unusual patterns in time-series data.

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Canvas

Presentation-style reporting tool in Kibana for creating custom, dynamic, multi-page displays of live data with pixel-perfect layouts and interactive elements.

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GrafanaTableauPowerBILookerMode Analytics
Graph Analytics

Graph exploration capabilities for discovering relationships in your Elasticsearch data, revealing connections and patterns that are not obvious from individual documents.

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Neo4jApache TinkerPopAmazon NeptuneJanusGraphArangoDB