Elastic Stack Features
Reports (8)
Reports Interface
Reports interface for standard and self-service reports is intuitive and easy to use.
Steps to Answer
Requires a minimal number of steps/clicks to answer business question.
Graphs and Charts
Offers a variety of attractive graph and chart formats.
Score Cards
Score cards visually track KPI's.
Dashboards
Provides business users an interface to easily design, refine and collaborate on their dashboards
Reports Interface
Reports interface for standard and self-service reports is intuitive and easy to use.
Share Reports
Receive email reports and notifications regarding metrics.
Steps to Answer
Requires a minimal number of steps/clicks to answer business question.
Data Updates (5)
Historical Snapshots
Ability to track historical data.
Real-Time Updating
Track metrics in real time with consistent and frequent updates.
Email Reports
Receive email reports and notifications regarding metric.
Historical Snapshots
Ability to track historical data.
Real-Time Updating
Track metrics in real time with consistent and frequent updates.
Data Preparation (4)
Data Sources
Automatically collect logs from all your services, applications, and platforms
Indexing
Automate the indexing of machine data that's critical to your operations
Automated Tagging
See log data in context with automated tagging and correlation
Data Blending
Mix and match data from apps, hosts, containers, services, networks, and more
Analysis (6)
Track Trends
Allows user to track log trends.
Detect Anomalies
Identify and predict anomalies in real-time with outlier detection and uncover root-causes
Metric and Event Data
Analyze both metric and event data on the same platform regardless of source or structure
Search
Search your logs for troubleshooting and open-ended exploration of your data
Alerts
Create alerts based on search patterns, thresholds for specific log metrics, or other conditions
Live Tail
See your data, in real time, streaming into the system from multiple data sources
Visualization (6)
Dashboards
Visualize log data on dashboards
Data Discovery
Drill down and explore data to discover new insights
Graphs and Charts
Offers a variety of attractive graph and chart formats.
Score Cards
Score cards visually track KPI's.
Dashboards
Provides business users an interface to easily design, refine and collaborate on their dashboards
Formats
Allows one to create and export visualization into various formats (PNG, JPEG, etc.)
Data Management (13)
Data Integration
Consolidate data from various disparate sources in a single unified view
Data Discovery
Understand the state of data, applications, systems and services
Multi - Platform
Manage data across environments (on-premises cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud)
Metadata
Provides metadata management and lineage capabilities
Data Model
Stores and queries data as JSON-like documents.
Data Types
Supports multiple data types like lists, sets, hashes (similar to map), sorted sets etc.
Built - In Search
Allows users to index at ingest and query endlessly across data.
Event Triggers
Notifies specific events like document inserts, updates, replaces, deletes etc and responds in real-time.
Data Model
Designed to store interconnected data consisting of nodes and edges.
Data Types
Supports multiple data types like lists, sets, hashes (similar to map), sorted sets etc.
Built - In Search
Allows users to index at ingest and query endlessly across data.
Event Triggers
Notifies specific events like document inserts, updates, replaces, deletes etc and responds in real-time.
Query Language
Powerful query language that allows users to access patterns like traversals, JOINs, search, geospatial etc.
Analytics (1)
Data Analytics
Supports advanced analytics solutions for better business decision making
Security (11)
Compliance
Rules and regulations inherited from source systems or defined to secure sensitive data
Governance
Grant or restrict data access and control
Data Protection
Built - In Backup and Disaster Recovery
Role-Based Authorization
Provides predefined system roles, privileges, and user-defined roles to users.
Authentication
Allows integration with external security mechanisms like Kerberos, LDAP authentication etc.
Audit Logs
Provides an audit log to track access and operations performed on databases for regulatory compliance.
Encryption
Provides encryption capability for all the data at rest using encryption keys.
Role-Based Authorization
Provides predefined system roles, privileges, and user-defined roles to users.
Authentication
Allows integration with external security mechanisms like Kerberos, LDAP authentication etc.
Audit Logs
Provides an audit log to track access and operations performed on databases for regulatory compliance.
Encryption
Provides encryption capability for all the data at rest using encryption keys.
Availability (5)
Auto Sharding
Implements auto horizontal data partitioning that allows storing data on more than one node to scale out.
Auto Recovery
Restores a database to a correct(consistent) state in the event of a failure.
Data Replication
Copy data across multiple servers through master-slave, peer-to-peer replication architecture etc.
Auto Sharding
Implements auto horizontal data partitioning that allows storing data on more than one node to scale out.
Auto Recovery
Restores a database to a correct(consistent) state in the event of a failure.
Performance (2)
Query Optimization
Helps interpret SQL queries and determine the fastest method of execution
Query Optimization
Helps interpret SQL queries and determine the fastest method of execution
Support (6)
Multi-Model
Provides support to handle structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data with equal effect.
Operating Systems
Available on multiple operating systems like Linux, Windows, MacOS etc.
BI Connectors
Allows users to connect business intelligence tools to the database.
Multi-Model
Provides support to handle structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data with equal effect.
BI Connectors
Allows users to connect business intelligence tools to the database.
Operating Systems
Available on multiple operating systems like Linux, Windows, MacOS etc.
Collaboration (3)
Sharing
Provides the ability to easily share visualizations.
Co-Editing
Allows multiple users to edit and create visualizations together.
Devices
Has the ability to edit visualization across devices and device types (e.g. computer and phone).
Generative AI (4)
AI Text Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.
AI Text Summarization
Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.
AI Text Generation
Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.
AI Text Summarization
Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.
Agentic AI - Data Fabric (5)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
Agentic AI - Log Analysis (7)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Adaptive Learning
Improves performance based on feedback and experience
Natural Language Interaction
Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting
Decision Making
Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives
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