Elastic

elastic.co · Mountain View, United States of America

Elastic is a search and data analytics company best known for Elasticsearch, an open-source search and analytics engine, along with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) used for log management, observability, and security analytics. It serves enterprises and developers who need to search, observe, and protect large volumes of data across applications, infrastructure, and security environments. The company generates revenue through subscriptions to its cloud and self-managed offerings, as well as related support and services.

  • Database & Data Storage
  • Observability & Monitoring
  • Security Operations (SIEM/SOAR)
Revenue
$1.3B
Employees
3,000
Founded
2012
Headquarters
Mountain View, United States of America

What 125 Arbolus experts think of Elastic

NPS is predominantly high (most scores range from 8–10), with very few detractors. Renewal intent is strong, especially among large spenders and across both users and influencers. Most organizations report being in the MoreThan1Year implementation stage, reflecting significant embeddedness. The main positive sentiment drivers are reliable centralized logging, fast troubleshooting, and mature search/visualization ecosystem. Leading concerns include cost (especially as data scales), operational complexity, and predictability of pricing tiers. Positive

Who reviewed Elastic

Total customers 125 107 current · 18 former
Reviews growth +73 in six months
Seniority of respondents
  • C-Suite 68% (85)
  • Director 18% (23)
  • Manager 14% (18)
Executive C-Suite NPS 8 Will renew
Engineering Executive C-Suite NPS 6 Will renew
Operations Leader Director NPS 7 Will renew

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Sentiment

35 Net Promoter Score, from 123 scored reviews
  • Promoters 53
  • Passives 61
  • Detractors 9

Cumulative NPS by month

+0 over 6 months
  • May 8
  • Jun 8
  • Jul 8
  • Aug 8
  • Sep 8
  • Oct 8

Net Promoter Score across 8 reviews, accumulated up to each month. Category median 35 across 8 companies.

Praised

  • Simpler Administration and Lower Cost Platforms
  • Enhanced AI-native Capabilities
  • Automated Root-Cause Analysis and Incident Summarization
  • Powerful and Flexible Search

Criticised

  • Operational Complexity at Scale
  • Pricing and Licensing Uncertainty
  • Cost and Scaling
  • Resource Utilization and Complexity

What customers say

Powerful and Flexible Search
“Elastic offers strong full-text search and flexible indexing, allowing us to quickly surface results on data that doesn’t fit a rigid schema.”
Scalability at Massive Data Volumes
“Elastic can search through petabytes of data in milliseconds and supports complex application monitoring across global environments.”
Centralized and Fast Troubleshooting
“I rely on Elastic for centralized log search and dashboards, which have made incident diagnosis much faster; what took thirty minutes now takes just a few.”

Renewal intent

Plan to renew 71%
  • Will renew 58
  • Undecided 20
  • Not renewing 4

Plan to renew, by seniority

  • C-Suite 71% 55 answers
  • Director 57% 14 answers
  • Manager 83% 6 answers
  • Not specified 86% 7 answers
  • 8.5/10 Average score from customers who will renew
  • 7.7/10 Average score from undecided customers
  • 3.8/10 Average score from customers not renewing

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