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Use cases for ES|QL

Serverless

Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments.

Stack

The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.

Availability

  • Generally available

    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.

These pages detail how to use ES|QL for search and cybersecurity use cases:

  • ES|QL for search: Learn how to use ES|QL for lexical (keyword) search, relevance scoring, semantic and hybrid search, semantic reranking, and more.
  • ES|QL for security: Learn how to use ES|QL for threat hunting, timeline investigation, detection rules, and migrating Splunk queries.