Elastic
Enterprise search, observability and security software built on Elasticsearch.
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Company facts
- Official name
- Elastic N.V.
- Entity type
- COMPANY
- Founded
- 2012
- Company size
- 1,001–5,000
- Market role
- B2B SaaS Provider
- Ticker
- ESTC
- Official website
- elastic.co
What Elastic does
Elastic operates a B2B software platform model. It creates value by providing a common search and analytics engine that enterprises and developers use across several operational use cases, including application search, observability, security analytics and managed cloud deployment. Revenue is generated from paid subscriptions, managed SaaS consumption and enterprise feature packaging layered on top of the core platform, allowing cross-sell across technical teams within the same customer.
Category differentiation
Elastic is an enterprise software company centred on search, observability and security analytics, not an adtech, martech or media platform. It should also not be confused with the generic term for elastic computing infrastructure or unrelated products using 'elastic' in their name.
Strategic context
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Elastic is a public enterprise software company best known for Elasticsearch and the broader Elastic platform. It sells software for search, analytics, observability, security operations and managed cloud deployments, with products used to index, analyse and retrieve large volumes of operational and enterprise data. Its platform is bought primarily by developers, platform teams, IT operations, security teams and enterprises building search-heavy or monitoring-heavy systems. The company makes money through a mix of subscription licensing for self-managed deployments and consumption-based pricing for Elastic Cloud and related services. Its commercial model expands from a common technical core: Elasticsearch acts as the underlying engine, while Kibana, observability, security, enterprise search and newer inference or agent-building capabilities extend spend within existing customer accounts.
Company news briefing
Briefing updated:
Building on its Deductive AI acquisition and expanded OpenAI collaboration, Elastic has nominated former Microsoft executive Julia Liuson to its board to enhance its developer-platform and AI expertise. While Citi analysts highlight Elastic as a key beneficiary of accelerating demand in the AI "data layer," broader market caution persists regarding the predictability of its consumption-based revenue transition. These strategic developments reinforce Elastic's focus on capitalising on enterprise agentic AI opportunities.
Business model & monetisation
Elastic monetises through a hybrid of SaaS subscription and consumption pricing. Elastic Cloud uses usage-based billing tied to infrastructure resources, ingestion and model inference consumption, while self-managed deployments are monetised through subscription tiers and feature-based commercial packaging. Enterprise contracts can scale materially with usage and are often expanded through multi-product adoption across search, observability and security.
- Elastic Cloud managed platform
- Consumption-based SaaS pricing tied to infrastructure and service usage
- Self-managed commercial subscriptions
- Feature-tiered software subscription
- Security and observability solution expansion
- Platform upsell within enterprise contracts
- Inference and AI service usage
- Consumption-based model and pipeline usage
Products & capabilities
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Products & market categories
Competitors & alternatives
- Sisense
Embedded analytics and BI software for enterprises and product teams.
- Algolia
Hosted search and discovery infrastructure for digital products.
- Datadog
Cloud observability software for infrastructure, applications, logs, and telemetry.
- Sumo Logic
Cloud analytics platform for observability, log management and security.
Side-by-side comparisons
Recent recorded signals
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Better together: Celebrating the 2026–2027 Elastic Partner Awards
Recorded impact score: 3/5
We created the Elastic Partner Awards to recognize our partners' contributions and the results they are delivering for customers. See who the Elastic Partner Award winners are for 2026–2027!
Elastic Nominates Julia Liuson to Board
Hiring · Recorded impact score: 2/5
Elastic announced the nomination of Julia Liuson to its Board of Directors. Liuson is a veteran technology executive who most recently served as President of Microsoft’s Developer Division and played a leadership role in integrating AI into developer tools including work with GitHub. Her nomination is subject to shareholder approval at Elastic’s annual general meeting in October 2026; if elected she will join the company’s Compensation Committee. The release also notes that Caryn Marooney will not stand for re-appointment when her term expires in October 2026. Elastic positioned the nomination as adding AI and developer-platform expertise as the company pursues opportunities connecting AI applications and agents to enterprise data for observability and security use cases.
- Elastic nominated Julia Liuson to its Board of Directors.
- Julia Liuson most recently served as President of Microsoft’s Developer Division and worked on GitHub integrations such as GitHub Copilot.
10-Q Financial Filing Analysis for Elastic (2026-08-28)
financials · Recorded impact score: 4.1/5
Elastic N.V. reported its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2027 ended July 31, 2026, delivering total revenue of $478.11 million, up 15% year-over-year. The growth was led by Elastic Cloud, which increased 20% year-over-year to $235.21 million and now represents 49% of total company revenue. Concurrently, Elastic initiated a restructuring plan on June 24, 2026, to streamline operations, involving a 7% workforce reduction and $19.92 million in restructuring charges. Further expanding its product capabilities, Elastic also executed a post-quarter cash acquisition of Deductive AI, Inc. for approximately $70 million.
- Q1 FY2027 total revenue rose 15% year-over-year to $478.11 million, with Elastic Cloud increasing 20% to $235.21 million (49% of total revenue).
- Restructuring plan initiated on June 24, 2026, resulted in a 7% workforce reduction and $19.92 million in restructuring and related charges.
Elastic Completes Deductive AI Acquisition
M&A · Recorded impact score: 3/5
Elastic announced it has completed the acquisition of Deductive AI, an AI-powered investigation platform that automates production-incident investigation and root-cause analysis. Elastic says the acquisition advances Elastic Observability by adding a reinforcement-learning-powered investigation engine and an AI SRE agent that gathers evidence, forms and tests hypotheses across code, telemetry, and organizational knowledge. Elastic CEO Ash Kulkarni and Deductive AI cofounder and former CEO Rakesh Kothari are quoted on the strategic fit and expected acceleration of AI-powered investigation capabilities. Existing Deductive AI customers will continue to receive support while integration plans and additional roadmap details are developed and shared in the coming months.
- Elastic completed the acquisition of Deductive AI (announced on August 25, 2026).
- Deductive AI is an AI-powered investigation platform that provides an AI SRE agent to gather evidence, form and test hypotheses, and determine root cause across code, telemetry, and organizational knowledge.
Elastic and OpenAI Expand Enterprise AI Collaboration
Large Language Models (LLM) & AI · Recorded impact score: 4/5
Elastic announced an expanded collaboration with OpenAI to help organizations build production-ready AI applications and agents by combining Elasticsearch’s retrieval, search, and governance capabilities with OpenAI’s advanced reasoning models. The partnership targets enterprise use cases across AI applications, security operations, and observability, aiming to ground models in permission-aware enterprise data to improve accuracy, security, and cost efficiency. The companies highlighted three customer outcomes — context-aware AI agents, agentic observability for SRE teams, and agentic security operations for analysts — and said they will deepen integrations including plans to integrate OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 Cyber models into Elastic Security workflows and extend governance to the OpenAI platform.
- Elastic announced an expanded collaboration with OpenAI to build production-ready AI applications and agents using OpenAI models with Elasticsearch.
- The collaboration combines Elasticsearch’s retrieval, search, and governance capabilities with OpenAI’s advanced reasoning models to ground AI in enterprise data.
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Questions about Elastic
What is Elastic?
Elastic is a public enterprise software company that sells search, analytics, observability, security and managed cloud products built around Elasticsearch.
Who uses Elastic?
Its customers are mainly developers, platform teams, SREs, IT operations teams, security teams, analysts and enterprises building or monitoring data-intensive systems.
How does Elastic make money?
Elastic makes money through paid software subscriptions for self-managed deployments and consumption-based pricing for Elastic Cloud and related services.
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