Elastic Stack Reviews & Product Details

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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Nadeemur Rehman C.

Director of Product Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/8/2023

"Great Tool for Data Analysis"

4/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

The best about Elastic stack is the Canva dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

The limitation of pulling data for analysis for more than 6 months. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pranay B.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/15/2023

"Very good exxperience"

5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Stack is really helpful in data visualization and analysis. Also ease of defining documents and making changes is a very good feature as compared to orther alternatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

Taking a buukd everytime. I've been struggling to express the current logic problem I'm trying to solve with Elasticsearch, and I think I have a good way to represent it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mehak B.

Lead Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/26/2023

"Visualizing different Data formats"

4/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Visualizing any type of data is possible using Elastic Stack products. With logstash, filtering and customizing the data picked from Elastic search is very easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

For transferring the logs to elastic search, filebeat setup is required which sometimes become a complex process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yatish H.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/20/2023

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"Excellent stack for developing at scale"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

- less bugs and the stack is more reliable

- great support on various forums like stackoverflow

- reliable and scalable software. Highly recommend using it if you are building applications at scale Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

- The forums lack participation on some questions

- The documentation is not that great on some topics

- Improving documentation/forum discussions could be great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/26/2023

"ELASTIC Stack Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Elastic stack is a great data visualisation tool with great features like log source integration, dashboards , and search section to retrieve data . The interface is smooth to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

The integration of Elastic stack with other tools is sometimes trouble some . The API integration needs to be improved for the tool and also it should support next gen automation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/27/2023

"Elastic Stack Review"

4/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Very good and reliable product for the sharding and configurations.Gives great visualization and data sharing options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

Faced issues while integration it with kibana , and it also reduce speed if configuration are not correct. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul T.

Associate Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/6/2023

"Best tool for all log in one place."

4/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

We can see all log in one place and very easy to setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

Setting up the elastic stack and integrating it with Kafka. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adity P.

Member Of Technical Staff

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/2/2023

"Superb Dashboards and Report"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

It generates a plethora of custom analytics and reports. Dashboard is superb, helps in easy tracking. The queries are simple. It can be easily accessed to monitor the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

For any issues, it takes some effort to search in the documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Fine Art

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/19/2023

"Great, Useful for searching quickly, nice sharding stratergy, and sclable."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Elastic Stack?

Easy to use and quick search response. Easily customizable Sharding and replication. Easy to query. It also has a flexible document-based data model, which allows for easy indexing and searching of structured and unstructured data. Additionally, Elasticsearch is backed by a strong open-source community, which means that there are many plugins and integrations available to extend its functionality. Elasticsearch is also part of the Elastic Stack which includes other products such as Logstash, Kibana and Beats, together these products provide an end-to-end solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Elastic Stack?

hard for beginners to become friendly with elastic and its queries. Memory-intensive tasks may require a significant amount of resources to run at scale and the learning curve is steep. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.