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Distributed search and analytics engine for full-text, logs, and faceted search at scale.
Getting Started
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Read the official documentation
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Our full tool profile covers Elasticsearch's strengths, weaknesses, pricing, and how it compares to alternatives.
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Enterprise search with faceting/analytics
Aggregations and large-scale relevance
Log and observability analytics
Doubles as a logging backend