---
title: Solutions overview
description: Overview of Elastic's three search-powered solutions—Elasticsearch, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security—with guidance on choosing the right one.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/get-started/introduction
products:
  - Elasticsearch
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Solutions overview
Elastic offers three major search-powered solutions: Elasticsearch, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security—all built on an open source, extensible [platform](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/get-started/the-stack).
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](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/solutions/elasticsearch-solution-project)• [Get started](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/solutions/elasticsearch-solution-project/get-started)                                                                                                                                 | Developers, architects, data engineers                              |
| Build embedding-driven workloads such as semantic search, RAG, and AI-powered retrieval                                                                     | [Elasticsearch Vector Database](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/solutions/vector-database) <applies-to>Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available</applies-to>• [Get started](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/solutions/vector-database/get-started) <applies-to>Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available</applies-to> | Developers building AI retrieval and similarity search applications |
| Observe and monitor system health and performance, or send telemetry data                                                                                   | [Elastic Observability](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/solutions/observability)• [Get started](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/solutions/observability/get-started)                                                                                                                                                           | DevOps, SREs, IT operations                                         |
| Monitor data for anomalous activity, detect, prevent, and respond to security incidents                                                                     | [Elastic Security](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/solutions/security)• [Get started](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/solutions/security/get-started)                                                                                                                                                                          | SOC teams, security analysts, IT security admins                    |

<note>
  The core [Elasticsearch search capabilities](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/solutions/search) are available across all deployment types, solutions, and project types. The [Elasticsearch solution](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/solutions/elasticsearch-solution-project) adds UI tools on top of these capabilities to help you build search-powered applications faster.
</note>

<tip>
  Check out our [customer success stories](https://www.elastic.co/customers/success-stories) to learn how various organizations use our products for their specific business needs.
</tip>

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](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/get-started/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](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7961/solutions).