Company behind search engine Elasticsearch
Elastic NV is an American-Dutch company that was founded in 2012 in Amsterdam , the Netherlands, and was previously known as Elasticsearch.[2] It is a search company that builds self-managed and software as a service (SaaS) offerings for search , logging, security, observability, and analytics use cases.[3]
The company develops the Elastic Stack—Elasticsearch , Kibana , Beats, and Logstash—previously known as the ELK Stack,[4] free and paid proprietary features (formerly called X-Pack), Elastic Cloud (a family of SaaS offerings including the Elasticsearch Service), and Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE).[5] [6]
Elasticsearch technology is used by eBay , Wikipedia , Yelp , Uber , Lyft , Tinder , and Netflix .[7] [8] Elasticsearch is also implemented in use cases such as application search, site search, enterprise search, logging, infrastructure monitoring, application performance management , security analytics (also used to augment security information and event management applications), and business analytics. The Elasticsearch meetup community totals more than 100,000 members.[9] Elastic is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ESTC.[10]
Citing headwinds from the global macroeconomic environment, Elastic NV announced a 13% reduction in headcount on November 30, 2022.[11] [12]
Elastic N.V.,has made several strategic acquisitions to expand its product offerings and capabilities.
Prelert - In 2016, Elastic acquired Prelert, a machine learning company specializing in anomaly detection.[13] [14]
Swiftype - In 2017, Elastic acquired Swiftype, a provider of search and index software.[15]
Endgame - In 2019, Elastic acquired Endgame, an endpoint security provider, for $234 million.[16]
build.security - In 2021, Elastic acquired build.security, a cloud security company focusing on policy definition and enforcement.[17] [18]
Cmd - In 2021, Elastic acquired Cmd, a company that provides organizations with intuitive monitoring and control over their Linux environment.[19]
Optimyze - The most recent acquisition was Optimyze on October 14, 2021 which is a cloud computing company based in Zurich.[20] Elastic N.V., the company behind Elasticsearch, has been funded through various rounds of investment.[citation needed ]
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^ "Elastic enters APM space with Opbeat acquisition" . TechCrunch . Retrieved 2019-10-09 .
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^ "CEO Ash Kulkarni's email to Elastic employees" . Elastic Blog . Retrieved 2022-12-02 .
^ DeFrancesco, Robert. "Elastic Is Carving Out A Niche In Generative AI With Vector Search" . Forbes . Retrieved 2023-12-20 .
^ Kepes, Ben (2016-09-15). "In an attempt to disrupt Splunk, Elastic makes another acquisition" . Network World . Retrieved 2023-08-04 .
^ Yegulalp, Serdar (2017-05-05). "Elasticsearch stack wises up with machine learning" . InfoWorld . Retrieved 2023-08-04 .
^ Ha, Anthony (2017-11-09). "Elastic acquires search startup Swiftype" . TechCrunch . Retrieved 2023-08-04 .
^ "Elastic buys endpoint security firm Endgame for $234 million" . ZDNET . Retrieved 2023-08-04 .
^ Kerner, Sean Michael (2021-08-23). "Elastic acquires build.security for security policy definition and enforcement" . TechCrunch . Retrieved 2023-08-04 .
^ Ben-David, Ricky. "Open code software giant Elastic to buy Israeli startup, open Tel Aviv R&D site" . www.timesofisrael.com . Retrieved 2023-08-04 .
^ Kobialka, Dan (2021-09-01). "Elastic Acquires Cmd; XDR Platform Gains Cloud Workload Runtime Security" . MSSP Alert . Retrieved 2023-08-04 .
^ "Elastic to buy 'continuous profiling' startup Optimyze" . ZDNET . Retrieved 2023-08-04 .