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The Elastic Stack, commonly known as the ELK Stack, is a comprehensive suite of open-source tools designed for ingesting, storing, analyzing, and visualizing data in real-time. It comprises Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, enabling users to handle data from any source and in any format efficiently. Key Features and Functionality: - Elasticsearch: A distributed, JSON-based search and analytics engine that allows for rapid storage, search, and analysis of large volumes of data. - Kibana: An extensible user interface that provides powerful visualizations, dashboards, and management tools to interpret and present data effectively. - Beats and Logstash: Data ingestion tools that collect and process data from various sources, transforming and forwarding it to Elasticsearch for indexing. - Integrations: A multitude of pre-built integrations that facilitate seamless data collection and connection with the Elastic Stack, enabling quick insights. Primary Value and User Solutions: The Elastic Stack empowers organizations to harness the full potential of their data by providing a scalable and resilient platform for real-time search and analytics. It addresses challenges such as managing large datasets, ensuring high availability, and delivering relevant search results swiftly. By offering a unified solution for data ingestion, storage, analysis, and visualization, the Elastic Stack enables users to gain actionable insights, enhance operational efficiency, and make informed decisions based on their data.

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Jithin J.

Software Architect (SSE) - Business Industry Copilot(AI and Cloud)

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/14/2023

"One of The Best Observability tools for end to end monitoring"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Open Source: As the components of Elastic stack are open -source, it can be implemented without any licensing cost and easily

Ease of Implementation: The components of Elastic stack like Kibana, Elastic search can be implemented easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

Less Support for OpeN Source Version of the Elastic stack as we have to search forums and understand the issue. But as the product is stable, such issues seldom occur as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Karan A.

Senior Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/27/2023

"Real Winner for logging and recording"

5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

I have integrated elastic stack in lots of apps for real time logging and I feel this as a boon for developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

Elastic stack is little Complex to understand for beginners due to its complex integration structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anshuman V.

Senior Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/20/2023

"The Elastic Stack revolutionizes logging and visualization."

5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Scalability for any volume of organised or unstructured data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

Nothing specifically, but a very scalable engine to handle the data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Divyank M.

Manager, Product Analytics & Innovation

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/3/2023

"LG Ad Solutions Team"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Lot of data visulisation in a very easy way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

The colors used are not very distinct to read and takes lot of time to load sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ramanuj S.

Automation Lead

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/27/2023

"A great tool for logging"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

We used Elastic Stack for our central logging architecture. Elastic stack provides great logging solution with their different components which helps in shipping , aggregation and visualization of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

Too many different components should be used to create an architecture for logging or search depending on requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vaibhav J.

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/4/2023

"Very efficient and complete stack for Log Analytics and observability use caes."

5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

ELK stack is very powerful and provides almost everything for log analytics use cases. Kibana is pretty easy and allows us build powerful dashboards very queickly to give insights into system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

The system becomes very slow when we have a vast amount of data. Sometimes we need to archive/purge the data so that its manageable. Also, sometimes the data ingestion is slow compared to other stacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sankalp A.

Growth Designer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/25/2023

"Functionality Review of ES"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Elasticsearch excels in search, n-grams, and full-text capabilities, with improved aggregation performance and reliable customization options, and the support of high volume data is remarkable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

I am unable to able to do self-monitoring due to non availability of PROD, and I am unable to access ES from any device of mine parallel to that RAM storage, an speed is too slow in calculations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prakash U.

AWS Data Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/5/2023

"Building a Search experience with elastic search"

5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

It's provides a way to quantify and analyse the perceived performance of web application. ES is a distributed analytics engine for all type of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

Group of products can realibly and securely from any source. So no dislike about ELK. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amr M.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/12/2023

"Elastic stack is amazing tool for monitoring and centralized logging."

5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Logging, dashboards, the amazing speed of indexing and searching, security features, scalability, and availability, continuous support, and upgrades, clear up-to-date documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

I can't think of a real reason to dislike it, but I found the cloud-hosted solution a little bit expensive. Also, alerting setup is kinda difficult if you want to have an advanced alert. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yashvendra S.

Tech Lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/2/2023

"Great tool for quick search and handy visualization"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Elastic Stack stands out when you have to have build recommendation engine or search heavy application. It also provides complete suit along with seeders and visualization tool like Kibana where you can use your own query based on your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

Overall it's a good package but sometimes Kibana is very slow if not used properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.