Solutions overview
Elastic offers three major search-powered solutions: Elasticsearch, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security—all built on an open source, extensible platform. Whether you're building a search experience, monitoring your infrastructure, or securing your environment, there is a solution that is right for your business needs.
| Your need | Recommended solution | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Build powerful, scalable search and analytics applications across structured data, logs, metrics, documents, and vectors as part of a broader Elastic Stack | Elasticsearch • Get started |
Developers, architects, data engineers |
| Build embedding-driven workloads such as semantic search, RAG, and AI-powered retrieval | Elasticsearch Vector Database
• Get started |
Developers building AI retrieval and similarity search applications |
| 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.
Each of our solutions is available as a fully managed Serverless project, a managed service on Elastic Cloud Hosted, or a self-managed deployment. Refer to deployment options to learn about these options.
If you're new to Elastic, you can find quickstarts and introductory steps for each solution within Solutions and use cases.