Elastic Stack (ELK)

The Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack) is an open-source suite of tools for search, logging, observability, and security analytics, comprising Elasticsearch for distributed search and analytics, Logstash for data processing, Kibana for visualization, and Beats for lightweight data…

Key facts

First appeared: 2010
Category: technology
Problem solved: Centralized logging, real-time search, and analytics on massive volumes of unstructured data that traditional databases and search engines couldn't scale to handle efficiently, enabling observability, security monitoring, and business intelligence.[1][4][7]
Platforms: Linux, macOS, Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), Windows

Related technologies

Prometheus
Docker
Kubernetes
Apache Kafka

Notable users

Netflix
Uber
LinkedIn
Cisco
Goldman Sachs