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Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats, also known as the ELK Stack, work together to ingest, store, search, and visualize data at scale. Run the stack as a managed service or in your own environment.

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Start a local development environment or a free Elastic Cloud trial, then ingest data and explore it in Kibana.

  1. Run Elasticsearch and Kibana

    Run locally

    Spin up Elasticsearch and Kibana on your machine for development with start-local.

    curl -fsSL https://elastic.co/start-local | sh
    Try on Cloud

    Start a free Elastic Cloud trial. No local setup needed.

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  2. Ingest your data

    Send documents to Elasticsearch using the APIs, ingest pipelines, Elastic Agent, Logstash, or a language client.

  3. Explore and visualize

    Open Discover, then build your first chart and dashboard.

What's new

Release notes for Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Observability, and Security.

Solutions

Purpose-built experiences on the Elastic Stack for search, observability, and security.

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Find documentation for deploying, upgrading, and operating the products that make up the stack.

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