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The distributed search and analytics engine at the heart of the Elastic platform. Index, search, and analyze data at any scale, build semantic and vector search experiences, and power applications. Run it as a managed service or in your own environment.

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  1. Run Elasticsearch

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  2. Ingest your data into Elasticsearch

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  3. Search your data

    Build queries to find, rank, and analyze your documents.

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