Solutions overview
Elastic offers four search-powered solution and project types, all built on an open source, extensible platform: Elasticsearch, Elasticsearch Vector Database, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security.
Whether you're building a search or retrieval experience, monitoring your infrastructure, or securing your environment, there is a solution or project type that is right for your business needs.
| Your need | What to use | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Build powerful, scalable searches to quickly search, analyze, and visualize large amounts of data for real-time insights across structured data, logs, metrics, documents, and vectors | Elasticsearch • Get started |
Developers, architects, data engineers |
| Build embedding-driven workloads such as semantic search, RAG, and AI-powered retrieval | Elasticsearch Vector Database (Serverless-only) • Get started |
Developers, architects, data engineers |
| Observe and monitor system health and performance, or send telemetry data | Elastic Observability • Get started |
DevOps, SREs, IT operations |
| Monitor data for anomalous activity, detect, prevent, and respond to security incidents | Elastic Security • Get started |
SOC teams, security analysts, IT security admins |
The core Elasticsearch search capabilities are available across all deployment types, solutions, and project types. The Elasticsearch solution adds UI tools on top of these capabilities to help you build search-powered applications faster.
Check out our customer success stories to learn how various organizations use our products for their specific business needs.
Most solutions are available as a fully managed Serverless project, as an Elastic Cloud Hosted deployment, or as a deployment on your own infrastructure. Refer to deployment options to compare the ways you can run Elastic.
If you're new to Elastic, you can find quickstarts and introductory steps for each solution and project type within Solutions and use cases.