# Elastic

> Elastic turns one distributed search and analytics engine into a platform for three large enterprise jobs: building AI-powered search, monitoring software and infrastructure, and investigating cyber threats. Its open-source roots give developers a free on-ramp, while subscriptions to Elastic Cloud and self-managed enterprise features fund a business that reported $1.739 billion in fiscal 2026 revenue and roughly 24,000 customers.

- **Founded:** 2012
- **Headquarters:** Distributed globally; registered office in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founders:** Shay Banon (Co-founder; current Founder and CTO), Steven Schuurman (Co-founder; founding CEO), Uri Boness (Co-founder), Simon Willnauer (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** 4,019 employees across more than 40 countries as of April 30, 2026
- **Products:** Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats and Elastic Agent, Elastic Search & AI
- **Notable:** Created Elasticsearch, one of the most widely adopted distributed search engines and an influential foundation for log analytics and vector retrieval., Built the ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana - and expanded it with Beats and Elastic Agent., Listed on the New York Stock Exchange under ESTC in October 2018 after pricing its IPO at $36 per share.

## Products & services

- **Elasticsearch** — A distributed search, analytics and vector database that stores structured and unstructured data and retrieves it with lexical, semantic and hybrid search.
- **Kibana** — The interface for querying, visualizing, investigating and managing data stored in Elasticsearch.
- **Logstash** — A server-side data processing pipeline that ingests, transforms and routes data from many sources.
- **Beats and Elastic Agent** — Lightweight and unified collectors that ship logs, metrics, endpoint events and other telemetry into the platform.
- **Elastic Search & AI** — Search APIs, vector retrieval, relevance tooling, inference integrations and Agent Builder for search applications and context-driven AI agents.
- **Elastic Observability** — Logs, metrics, traces, APM, infrastructure monitoring, service-level objectives and AI-assisted incident investigation on one data platform.
- **Elastic Security** — SIEM, endpoint protection, cloud security, threat hunting, entity analytics and automated response using shared Elasticsearch data.
- **Elastic Cloud** — Hosted and serverless Elasticsearch services on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, alongside self-managed deployment options.
- **Agent Builder and Workflows** — Tools for grounding AI agents in enterprise context and pairing probabilistic reasoning with rules-based automation across connected systems.
- **Training, consulting and support** — Enterprise support bundled with paid subscriptions plus implementation consulting, technical training and certification.

## Achievements

- Created Elasticsearch, one of the most widely adopted distributed search engines and an influential foundation for log analytics and vector retrieval.
- Built the ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana - and expanded it with Beats and Elastic Agent.
- Listed on the New York Stock Exchange under ESTC in October 2018 after pricing its IPO at $36 per share.
- Reached approximately 24,000 customers and $1.739 billion in annual revenue in fiscal 2026.
- Reported more than 1,720 customers spending over $100,000 annually and more than 240 spending over $1 million in fiscal 2026.
- Returned the free core of Elasticsearch and Kibana to an OSI-approved open-source option by adding AGPLv3 in November 2024.
- Named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for worldwide SIEM and in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for general-purpose knowledge discovery software.
- Elastic Cloud Hosted achieved FedRAMP High authorization on AWS GovCloud in March 2026.
- CISA awarded Elastic a contract in 2026 to provide SIEM as a Service to U.S. federal civilian agencies.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Elastic announced expanded Attack Discovery, endpoint protection and native workflow automation aimed at reducing security alert queues to validated attacks.
- **2026-06** — Elastic introduced agentic Kubernetes investigations and MCP-based observability skills that begin diagnosis when an alert fires.
- **2026-05** — Elastic reported fiscal 2026 revenue of $1.739 billion, up 17%, and roughly 24,000 customers.
- **2026-05** — Elastic 9.4 made Workflows generally available and added Agent Builder context controls, native Prometheus and PromQL support, GPU-accelerated vector indexing and FIPS 140-3 capabilities.
- **2026-03** — Elastic Cloud Hosted achieved FedRAMP High authorization on AWS GovCloud, and CISA selected Elastic for a federal civilian SIEM-as-a-Service offering.
- **2026-01** — Agent Builder became generally available, with native MCP and A2A support for grounding AI agents in enterprise data.
- **2024-11** — Elastic added AGPLv3 as an open-source licensing option for the free portions of Elasticsearch and Kibana.

## Links

- Website: https://www.elastic.co/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/elastic-co
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/elastic
- GitHub: https://github.com/elastic
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/elasticsearch
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elastic.co

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Last updated: 2026-08-14