Elastic Stack

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Distributed search and analytics solution

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Mo
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes for best scalability

Reviewed on 22/4/2022

Organizing chat data to be searchable and log management to proactively fix issues.

Organizing chat data to be searchable and log management to proactively fix issues.

Pros

One of the best features I like is that Elastic built their own kubernetes operator to extend the k8s orchestration and make it easy to deploy, scale, change, secure and configure hot-warm infrastructures. Their operator saves a ton of time during configuration. I have deployed stacks on different k8s architectures like Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service and small on prem clusters with microk8s without issues. When we reach performance thresholds we add more elastic nodes and ECK secures and joins it to the cluster and in minutes we can leverage the extra compute. A lot of changes that are done after going to PROD are non-disruptive since ECK is aware of the main node and makes sure to pass the master role before the main one is re-deployed. I have also migrated Elastic Cloud Enterprise deployments running on bare metal and the stability of ECK is unmatched.

Cons

Currently it is not recommended or supported for a PROD cluster to do its own self monitoring so you have to deploy a monitoring cluster. In cloud scenarios this adds costs and extra complexity so it will be great to have this feature supported.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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A very good stack to store and visualize data.

Reviewed on 27/2/2023

Overall I am happy with my decision to choose Elastic Stack. It is completely fulfilling my...

Overall I am happy with my decision to choose Elastic Stack. It is completely fulfilling my requirements without any issues.Kibana works very well even with a lot of data.

Pros

I mostly like the Elastic Search queries. Those follow a certain standard and work very well. Data retrieval is very easy and fast in Elastic Search.Visualizing data thru Kibana is very smooth and straightforward. It supports a couple of inbuilt dashboards to represent the data nicely.

Cons

Nothing to dislike about Elastic Stack. The only thing is configuration and setup should be correct. It could take some time for beginners.

Victor Luis
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  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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This powerful tool allows you to take data from any source and format to search and analyze.

Reviewed on 23/3/2018

Pros

It is a super fast and efficient data extraction tool. Recommended for medium-sized projects.
Handles large amounts of data, is scalable.

Cons

Usable from any device, however these must be state-of-the-art and offer great calculation speeds and ram storage.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Elastic Stack - A Complete Package for Big Data Visualizations and Fast Data Query!

Reviewed on 20/8/2022

Elastic Stack is a powerful platform which allows you to quickly search and query on the data even...

Elastic Stack is a powerful platform which allows you to quickly search and query on the data even if the data is in huge volume, thanks to its distributed computing and storage. it has enabled me to develop an application which fetches results from TBs of data in seconds.

Pros

1.Allows Faster searching and query operations
2.Provides with easy data visualization for analysis
3.Support for multiple data sources
4.Good SDK support for quick integration with application
5.Scalable as per the requirement with support of kubernetes

Cons

1.UI is simple ,could be made more robust and dynamic
2.Calculations and processing speed can be further improved
3.Proper usage knowledge is required when using it on scalable platforms

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Infinitely scalable search solution

Reviewed on 24/11/2023

We use it to store and analyze in real time network traffic for our custom L4 firewall.

We use it to store and analyze in real time network traffic for our custom L4 firewall.

Pros

Handles a ton of traffic without issues given enough hardware

Cons

Hardware requirements might be too much for little deployments.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Easy to monitor logs

Reviewed on 15/4/2023

Pros

Using elastic stack I can easily track my application logs.

Cons

I liked almost all the features but there is still scope in the dashboard.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Data management and visualisation at (almost) its best

Reviewed on 23/3/2023

Pros

I really like how multiple inputs can be managed at the same time.

Cons

The multiple versions of API and multiple possible format make it quite hard to get the correct one - mostly when a new release is out and user is pushed to use it - without proper support.

Animesh
Animesh
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best for Website Monitoring, Event Management and Log Analysis.

Reviewed on 18/4/2022

This lightweight, yet powerful, modern SIEM is well-suited for the modern security operations...

This lightweight, yet powerful, modern SIEM is well-suited for the modern security operations center as it can handle a wide range of activities with ease. elastic Stack is a powerful and flexible SIEM with feature-rich out-of-the-box tools that make it easy to get the job.

Pros

We are using ELK Stack SIEM, a scalable aggregation engine that helps us find patterns in our data as well as provides a wide array of customizable analytics and reports. With Elastic Stack, we have a better understanding of flaws and security issues, particularly memory tier support that ensures the security of our data and networks.

Cons

It is very challenging and time-consuming to upgrade cluster node roles and data replication.

Gedson
Gedson
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

The perfect searching allied to a RDB

Reviewed on 12/3/2019

We've been pairing Elasticsearch with a traditional RDB in many projects with great results. This...

We've been pairing Elasticsearch with a traditional RDB in many projects with great results. This way we don't compromise our data reliability and searching speed is blazing fast.

Pros

Searching is where elasticsearch is second to none, either in terms, n-grams or full-text. Latest releases have greatly improved the aggregation performance, so it's also a great fit for analytics workloads. The customizable sharding and replica configurations make is very reliable too.

Cons

Searching and joining different documents has room for improvement, it's usualy not as fast as we would like it to be, so most of the times we end up un-normalizing documents and en-richening their data to boost searching performance.

Deniz
Deniz
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

One of the Best No sql Document Base Database

Reviewed on 3/5/2021

In our projects, we use elasticsearch in database queries that need fast answers. It is especially...

In our projects, we use elasticsearch in database queries that need fast answers. It is especially useful for search and autocomplete operations.

Pros

When you want to run queries in big data and get results, you can get results much faster from relational databases. Queries are also easy to create

Cons

We sometimes have problems during the integration of Kibana. But we couldn't figure out why
Other than that, I didn't have any problems

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

A Very Useful Stack !!!

Reviewed on 28/2/2023

Overall I am very happy as a user of Elastic Stack. It completely fulfills my requirements. We can...

Overall I am very happy as a user of Elastic Stack. It completely fulfills my requirements. We can store and retrieve data very easily in Elastic. Kibana is a very good tool to visualize data saved in Elastic.

Pros

Elastic search is very fast, it returns the results within a few milliseconds. We can connect Logstash and Kibana very easily with Elastic.The filters in Kibana are very good. We can sort the data as needed.

Cons

I don't think there is anything to dislike about Elastic.

Anis
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Reliable and easy to use tech stack

Reviewed on 10/2/2023

It's an easy choice when complex queries are involved, if cost is a secondary factor.

It's an easy choice when complex queries are involved, if cost is a secondary factor.

Pros

Natural language processing like stemming, removing stopwords, multilingual search, tokenized storage etc.

Cons

When there is a large text searches, the elastic search sometime crashes. This needs to be optimized.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Great log collection tool

Reviewed on 14/1/2023

We originally searched for a scalable, mid-tier log analysis tool for our multi-server application....

We originally searched for a scalable, mid-tier log analysis tool for our multi-server application. Elastic was able to hook into our system and collect what we needed; though we did not get too far into the custom analytics as we would've liked to.

Pros

Widely-supported, almost a pioneer software for logging. Even now, most logging tools actually leverage ELK under-the-hood for their analysis or collection.

Cons

Pattern-matching needs to be more user-friendly, it would be best if they were able to leverage conventional regex usage instead of their custom format. Elastic RegExp queries must match the entire string and take a bit of learning, see here for syntax documentation: [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

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Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

My favorite BI & SIEM Tool

Reviewed on 5/10/2022

overall i am delighted to have chosen this application, it solved many of our problems

overall i am delighted to have chosen this application, it solved many of our problems

Pros

Lightening fast, we built BI dashboards and the 5 years reports data gets populated within seconds that would otherwise takes hours traditionally database or BI tool

Cons

Very Big learning curve, first tie deployment takes very long time to make it work perfectly and then optimize it. need very good technical expertise

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Using Kibana

Reviewed on 30/12/2021

Pros

We user Kibana's dashboard and also part of it for data analysis of our tool. It allows us to look and compare historical data and gives us a great visualisation, analytic tools and data sharing options of all the data collected by our scanner.

Cons

I enjoy working with the tool, however, I am missing quite some UX design improvements that could really improve the interaction with Kibana. Moreover, I could use an option of saving the templates or most recent types of searches into some kind of database so we would not need to setup these all over again.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

One of the best , simple log analytics and searching tool.

Reviewed on 31/8/2022

Best for searching, log analytics, and visualization software available in the market. The...

Best for searching, log analytics, and visualization software available in the market. The integration of Elastic Search, Logstash, and Kibana makes it one of the best overall software to manage and visualize and analyze logs.

Pros

It is very easy to deploy using docker containers and Kubernetes support. It's very easy to query a high volume of data and get results in seconds. Its easy-to-use UI is self-explanatory and also the forum support and documentation are quite helpful.

Cons

Sometimes it crashes in between. Query structure is somewhat completed, and can be made simple with more specific examples to use directly in projects.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Elastic Stack is the best for Business

Reviewed on 11/4/2022

we use elastic stack to integrated with elastiflow to track all the traffic destination, protocol...

we use elastic stack to integrated with elastiflow to track all the traffic destination, protocol log, and other activity inside network, it very nice and work well, and produce the nice dashboard and clear view.

Pros

the very powerful search engine I search around 5 million log in a second only.
Very nice real-time dashboard, I can integrated with other software and see all the view of network traffic, traffic flow very well.

Cons

well I would say, it's pretty good already, but still some function need to use command alot.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Distributed Search and analytics engine available in cloud

Reviewed on 30/6/2020

Best search and analytics software available in cloud, flexible to use and available free trial to...

Best search and analytics software available in cloud, flexible to use and available free trial to evaluate it.

Pros

This is best search software for data searching and analytics on stream data in cloud. It is so flexible complex keyword searches and very efficient. Great tool for analyzing logs very powerful. 24/7 customer support.

Cons

Not really a negative side but if you have low bandwidth web interface will become very slow.And think learning manual still needs some improvement.

M. Serhat
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

A complete stack for full text search

Reviewed on 2/4/2020

Elasticsearch might be overkill if you are working with a small or mid-sized applications. However...

Elasticsearch might be overkill if you are working with a small or mid-sized applications. However it's a serious solution for big-scale apps that are dealing with millions of records. The setup of the Elasticsearch might seem easy, but the maintenance is not. If you have simpler needs, I would suggest the full-text search functionality of modern PostgreSQL versions.

Pros

Elasticsearch is quite powerful and fast. You can implement it to any enterprise software independent of the scale. It's well documented and getting frequent updates. It's also a reliable software that you can use in mission-critical operations.

Cons

Breaking changes between different versions are hard to deal with. Each major version upgrade of ElasticSearch is bringing new functionality, improved security, and speed - but at the same time, it requires you to update your indexes, which is not an easy task if you don't have a strong infrastructure team.

Houcem
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Powerful stack for event collection, management and visualisation

Reviewed on 14/4/2022

A solid product with a rich feature set, if you get past the initial setup complexity.

A solid product with a rich feature set, if you get past the initial setup complexity.

Pros

Provides great features for log ingestion, normalisation and visualisation.
Has a free open source tier which can be used to cover many use cases.
Visualisation options are diverse and powerful.
Solid community support in forums.

Cons

Initial setup can be tedious and is rather complex.
The provided security ruleset tends to produce many false positives and requires fine tuning.
Log ingestion options are not entirely covered by the web user interface.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Elastic Stack for Application Logs

Reviewed on 14/4/2022

Elastic Stack is an open source full stack solution for logs of modern day big data applications...

Elastic Stack is an open source full stack solution for logs of modern day big data applications processing logs with its different applications of Logstash, Elastic and Kibana. We are using it to read through application logs, storing logs data and using dashboard to easily navigate thru the big chunk of files. Its an amazing combo of applications, completely free of cost with easy implementation and powerful online support.

Pros

1. End to End Solution of enterprise logs with services such as Logstash, Elastic and Kibana.
2. Strong User Community and support.
3. Easy to use and implement.
4. Proactive updates on possible downtimes.
5. Dashboards for easy navigation.

Cons

1. Cloud performance is slower than on premises installation.
2. It crashes in between which delay things sometimes.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Hospitality
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Elasticsearch is a general purpose search engine that can do much more than search

Reviewed on 11/1/2019

We use Elasticsearch to filter and sort search results in our marketplace. We've built out many...

We use Elasticsearch to filter and sort search results in our marketplace. We've built out many complicated queries that allow us to do interesting things like geo-based queries, personalization, and time boxed deals.

Pros

Elasticsearch offers a very flexible system for adding search capability to your systems. It is also capable of much more. The REST API and great documentation makes getting started very simple. Elasticsearch was also designed with scaling in mind. Adding nodes and self balancing is quite easy. AWS offers hosted Elasticsearch that makes spinning up your first cluster as simple as a few clicks.

Cons

Writing complicated queries can be quite tedious at times. The JSON interface is not always easy to read when trying to match up parentheses. Upgrading from older versions is not a simple process.

Osman
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

ElasticSearch_02-07-2022

Reviewed on 2/7/2022

I use it log search.

I use it log search.

Pros

It is good to store and monitor logs with Kibana.

Cons

The elasticsearch version management is bad because next version could have critical changes from previous.

Luis Felipe
Luis Felipe
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Have too much data to your database?

Reviewed on 3/12/2019

Our application makes many filters for too much data, without Elasticsearch it just stops

Our application makes many filters for too much data, without Elasticsearch it just stops

Pros

- Almost 100% of uptime
- Great support
- Really fast and easy to use for any application
- Easy to configure

Cons

- The cost of product may inviabilize it's use for small applications or companies
- If the configuration goes wrong it may really affect the speed

Onur
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Working On Big Data Is Now More Comfortable

Reviewed on 3/12/2019

Our company uses elasticsearch to analyze data in very large data. Successful indexing is designed...

Our company uses elasticsearch to analyze data in very large data. Successful indexing is designed in a cluster (node) structure, which has made our work much easier. Thanks to this search engine, we can reach the desired analysis results in the data. It is a blessing for our sector employees to have a free application running in this performance.

Pros

Flexibility and high performance are the most loved features for us. The fact that we are not using it very effectively is also a ramen of suggestions and guidance.

Cons

The only feature I don't like is that it is Java based.