Elastic solutions overview
Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments. The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.
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Elastic offers four search-powered solution and project types, all built on an open source, extensible platform: Elasticsearch, Elasticsearch Vector Database, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security.
Whether you're building a search or retrieval experience, monitoring your infrastructure, or securing your environment, there is a solution or project type that is right for your business needs.
| Your need | What to use | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Build powerful, scalable searches to quickly search, analyze, and visualize large amounts of data for real-time insights across structured data, logs, metrics, documents, and vectors | Elasticsearch • Get started |
Developers, architects, data engineers |
| Build embedding-driven workloads such as semantic search, RAG, and AI-powered retrieval | Elasticsearch Vector Database (Serverless-only) • Get started |
Developers, architects, data engineers |
| Observe and monitor system health and performance, or send telemetry data | Elastic Observability • Get started |
DevOps, SREs, IT operations |
| Monitor data for anomalous activity, detect, prevent, and respond to security incidents | Elastic Security • Get started |
SOC teams, security analysts, IT security admins |
The core Elasticsearch search capabilities are available across all deployment types, solutions, and project types. The Elasticsearch solution adds UI tools on top of these capabilities to help you build search-powered applications faster.
Check out our customer success stories to learn how various organizations use our products for their specific business needs.
Most solutions are available as a fully managed Serverless project, as an Elastic Cloud Hosted deployment, or as a deployment on your own infrastructure. Refer to deployment options to compare the ways you can run Elastic.
If you're new to Elastic, you can find quickstarts and introductory steps for each solution and project type within Elastic solutions and use cases.