From b4643bc6e1d60ac260138d46b3ee6a97ecef1364 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kilfoyle Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:53:07 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Add links to Serverless web estimator --- ...lastic-observability-billing-dimensions.md | 2 +- .../billing/security-billing-dimensions.md | 1 + get-started/what-is-elastic.md | 160 ++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 get-started/what-is-elastic.md diff --git a/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/elastic-observability-billing-dimensions.md b/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/elastic-observability-billing-dimensions.md index ad9def32d4..facbdb09b9 100644 --- a/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/elastic-observability-billing-dimensions.md +++ b/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/elastic-observability-billing-dimensions.md @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Your monthly bill is based on the capabilities you use. When you use {{obs-serve Data volumes for ingest and retention are based on the fully enriched normalized data size at the end of the ingest pipeline, before {{es}} compression is performed, and will be higher than the volumes traditionally reported by {{es}} index size. In addition, these volumes might be larger than those reported by cloud provider proxy logs for data going into {{es}}. This allows you to have flexibility in choosing your preferred ingest architecture for enrichment, whether it’s through Elastic Agent, Logstash, OpenTelemetry, or collectors — with no impact on the cost. -Refer to [Serverless billing dimensions](serverless-project-billing-dimensions.md) and the [{{ecloud}} pricing table](https://cloud.elastic.co/cloud-pricing-table?productType=serverless&project=observability) for more details about {{obs-serverless}} billing dimensions and rates. +Refer to [Serverless billing dimensions](serverless-project-billing-dimensions.md) and the [{{ecloud}} pricing table](https://cloud.elastic.co/cloud-pricing-table?productType=serverless&project=observability) for more details about {{obs-serverless}} billing dimensions and rates, or you can create a [Serverless estimate](https://cloud.elastic.co/pricing/serverless?s=observability). ## Synthetics [synthetics-billing] diff --git a/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/security-billing-dimensions.md b/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/security-billing-dimensions.md index f798375d40..8120875416 100644 --- a/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/security-billing-dimensions.md +++ b/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/security-billing-dimensions.md @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Your monthly bill is based on the capabilities you use. When you use Security An Data volumes for ingest and retention are based on the fully enriched normalized data size at the end of the ingest pipeline, before {{es}} compression is performed, and will be higher than the volumes traditionally reported by {{es}} index size. In addition, these volumes might be larger than those reported by cloud provider proxy logs for data going into {{es}}. This allows you to have flexibility in choosing your preferred ingest architecture for enrichment, whether it’s through {{agent}}, {{ls}}, OpenTelemetry, or collectors — with no impact on the cost. +[Create a serverless estimate](https://cloud.elastic.co/pricing/serverless?s=security), or refer to the [{{ecloud}} pricing table](https://cloud.elastic.co/cloud-pricing-table?productType=serverless&project=security) for more details. ## Endpoint Protection [security-billing-endpoint-protection] diff --git a/get-started/what-is-elastic.md b/get-started/what-is-elastic.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b111c76cf0 --- /dev/null +++ b/get-started/what-is-elastic.md @@ -0,0 +1,160 @@ +--- +mapped_pages: + - https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/elasticsearch-intro-what-is-es.html + - https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/starting-with-the-elasticsearch-platform-and-its-solutions/current/index.html +products: + - id: elasticsearch + - id: elastic-stack + - id: observability + - id: security +applies_to: + serverless: + stack: +description: Learn what Elastic is, understand the platform and solutions it provides, + and discover how Elastic can help solve your business challenges. +--- + +# What is Elastic? [what-is-elastic] + +Elastic is a company that provides an open source search, analytics, and AI platform, along with out-of-the-box solutions for observability and security. The Elastic platform combines the power of search and generative AI to deliver near real-time search and analysis capabilities that help organizations reduce time to value and make data-driven decisions. + +:::{image} /get-started/images/elastic-platform.png +:alt: The Elastic platform +::: + +## The Elastic platform + +At its core, Elastic provides a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene. The platform is designed to handle large volumes of data—whether structured or unstructured, text or numerical, geospatial or time-series—and make it searchable and analyzable in near real-time. + +The platform is built on open source principles, giving you the flexibility to: +- Deploy on your own infrastructure or in the cloud +- Customize and extend functionality to meet your specific needs +- Avoid vendor lock-in with open APIs and standards + +## Core solutions + +Elastic offers three primary solutions built on the platform, each designed to address specific business needs: + +### Elasticsearch + +{{es}} is the distributed search and analytics engine at the heart of the Elastic platform. It enables you to: +- Build powerful, scalable search experiences for applications and websites +- Perform complex analytics on large datasets +- Store and query structured and unstructured data +- Integrate with generative AI to enhance search relevance and user experience + +Whether you're building a product catalog search, implementing site search, creating a recommendation engine, or developing custom analytics applications, {{es}} provides the foundation for fast, relevant search and analysis. + +[Learn more about {{es}}](/solutions/search.md) + +### Elastic Observability + +Elastic {{observability}} helps you monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize your applications and infrastructure. It provides: +- **Application Performance Monitoring (APM)**: Track application performance, identify bottlenecks, and understand user experience +- **Log analytics**: Centralize, search, and analyze logs from across your infrastructure +- **Infrastructure monitoring**: Monitor servers, containers, and cloud services +- **Synthetic monitoring**: Proactively test and monitor your applications from around the world +- **Uptime monitoring**: Track the availability and response times of your services + +With Elastic {{observability}}, you can gain visibility into your entire technology stack, from applications to infrastructure, helping you maintain system health and performance. + +[Learn more about Elastic {{observability}}](/solutions/observability.md) + +### Elastic Security + +{{elastic-sec}} provides security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint security, and cloud security capabilities. It helps you: +- **Detect threats**: Identify security incidents and anomalous activity across your environment +- **Investigate incidents**: Use powerful search and analytics to investigate security events +- **Prevent attacks**: Protect endpoints and cloud workloads from threats +- **Respond quickly**: Automate response actions and streamline security workflows +- **Comply with regulations**: Meet compliance requirements with built-in reporting and audit capabilities + +{{elastic-sec}} enables security teams to protect their organizations by providing comprehensive visibility into security events and the tools needed to detect, investigate, and respond to threats. + +[Learn more about {{elastic-sec}}](/solutions/security.md) + +## The Elastic Stack + +The {{stack}} is a collection of open source products that work together to help you take data from any source, in any format, and search, analyze, and visualize it. The core components include: + +- **{{es}}**: The distributed search and analytics engine +- **{{kib}}**: The visualization and management interface +- **{{beats}}**: Lightweight data shippers for sending operational data +- **{{ls}}**: A data processing pipeline for transforming and enriching data +- **{{agent}}**: A unified agent for collecting observability and security data + +These components are designed to work together seamlessly, with synchronized releases to simplify installation and upgrades. + +[Learn more about the {{stack}}](/get-started/the-stack.md) + +## Key capabilities + +### Search and relevance + +Elastic provides powerful search capabilities that go beyond simple keyword matching: +- **Full-text search**: Search across large volumes of text with relevance ranking +- **Fuzzy matching**: Find results even with typos or variations +- **Geospatial search**: Search and filter by geographic location +- **AI-powered search**: Enhance search relevance with machine learning and generative AI +- **Multi-language support**: Search across content in multiple languages + +### Analytics and insights + +Transform raw data into actionable insights: +- **Real-time analytics**: Analyze data as it arrives +- **Aggregations**: Perform complex calculations and statistical analysis +- **Time-series analysis**: Track metrics and trends over time +- **Machine learning**: Detect anomalies and predict future trends +- **Data visualization**: Create dashboards and visualizations to understand your data + +### Scalability and performance + +Built to handle growth: +- **Horizontal scaling**: Add nodes to scale out as your data grows +- **Distributed architecture**: Automatically distribute data and queries across nodes +- **High availability**: Built-in replication and failover capabilities +- **Performance optimization**: Tune for your specific use case and workload + +### Security and compliance + +Protect your data and meet compliance requirements: +- **Authentication and authorization**: Control who can access your data +- **Encryption**: Encrypt data at rest and in transit +- **Audit logging**: Track all access and changes to your data +- **Compliance features**: Built-in capabilities to meet regulatory requirements + +## Deployment options + +Elastic offers flexible deployment options to meet your operational needs: + +- **{{serverless-full}}**: Fully managed, serverless deployments that automatically scale with your needs +- **{{ech}}**: Managed service on Elastic Cloud with full control over configuration +- **Self-managed**: Deploy and manage Elastic on your own infrastructure + +[Learn more about deployment options](/get-started/deployment-options.md) + +## Use cases + +Organizations use Elastic for a wide variety of use cases: + +- **Enterprise search**: Build search experiences for internal knowledge bases, documentation, and content +- **E-commerce**: Power product search, recommendations, and personalization +- **Application monitoring**: Monitor application performance and troubleshoot issues +- **Security operations**: Detect and respond to security threats +- **Log management**: Centralize and analyze logs from across your infrastructure +- **Business intelligence**: Analyze business data and create dashboards +- **Content discovery**: Help users discover relevant content in applications +- **Fraud detection**: Identify fraudulent activity in real-time + +## Getting started + +Ready to get started with Elastic? Here are some recommended next steps: + +1. **[Explore solutions](/solutions/index.md)**: Learn more about Elasticsearch, Observability, and Security solutions +2. **[Understand the Stack](/get-started/the-stack.md)**: Learn how Elastic components work together +3. **[Choose a deployment option](/get-started/deployment-options.md)**: Select the deployment approach that fits your needs +4. **[Try Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/cloud/elasticsearch-service/signup)**: Sign up for a free trial to explore Elastic Cloud + +Whether you're building search experiences, monitoring your infrastructure, or securing your environment, Elastic provides the platform and solutions to help you succeed. + + From 23c3f5b9e90cd3c01544d047652e21fa054fbf94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kilfoyle Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:56:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Remove what is page --- get-started/what-is-elastic.md | 160 --------------------------------- 1 file changed, 160 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 get-started/what-is-elastic.md diff --git a/get-started/what-is-elastic.md b/get-started/what-is-elastic.md deleted file mode 100644 index b111c76cf0..0000000000 --- a/get-started/what-is-elastic.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,160 +0,0 @@ ---- -mapped_pages: - - https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/elasticsearch-intro-what-is-es.html - - https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/starting-with-the-elasticsearch-platform-and-its-solutions/current/index.html -products: - - id: elasticsearch - - id: elastic-stack - - id: observability - - id: security -applies_to: - serverless: - stack: -description: Learn what Elastic is, understand the platform and solutions it provides, - and discover how Elastic can help solve your business challenges. ---- - -# What is Elastic? [what-is-elastic] - -Elastic is a company that provides an open source search, analytics, and AI platform, along with out-of-the-box solutions for observability and security. The Elastic platform combines the power of search and generative AI to deliver near real-time search and analysis capabilities that help organizations reduce time to value and make data-driven decisions. - -:::{image} /get-started/images/elastic-platform.png -:alt: The Elastic platform -::: - -## The Elastic platform - -At its core, Elastic provides a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene. The platform is designed to handle large volumes of data—whether structured or unstructured, text or numerical, geospatial or time-series—and make it searchable and analyzable in near real-time. - -The platform is built on open source principles, giving you the flexibility to: -- Deploy on your own infrastructure or in the cloud -- Customize and extend functionality to meet your specific needs -- Avoid vendor lock-in with open APIs and standards - -## Core solutions - -Elastic offers three primary solutions built on the platform, each designed to address specific business needs: - -### Elasticsearch - -{{es}} is the distributed search and analytics engine at the heart of the Elastic platform. It enables you to: -- Build powerful, scalable search experiences for applications and websites -- Perform complex analytics on large datasets -- Store and query structured and unstructured data -- Integrate with generative AI to enhance search relevance and user experience - -Whether you're building a product catalog search, implementing site search, creating a recommendation engine, or developing custom analytics applications, {{es}} provides the foundation for fast, relevant search and analysis. - -[Learn more about {{es}}](/solutions/search.md) - -### Elastic Observability - -Elastic {{observability}} helps you monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize your applications and infrastructure. It provides: -- **Application Performance Monitoring (APM)**: Track application performance, identify bottlenecks, and understand user experience -- **Log analytics**: Centralize, search, and analyze logs from across your infrastructure -- **Infrastructure monitoring**: Monitor servers, containers, and cloud services -- **Synthetic monitoring**: Proactively test and monitor your applications from around the world -- **Uptime monitoring**: Track the availability and response times of your services - -With Elastic {{observability}}, you can gain visibility into your entire technology stack, from applications to infrastructure, helping you maintain system health and performance. - -[Learn more about Elastic {{observability}}](/solutions/observability.md) - -### Elastic Security - -{{elastic-sec}} provides security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint security, and cloud security capabilities. It helps you: -- **Detect threats**: Identify security incidents and anomalous activity across your environment -- **Investigate incidents**: Use powerful search and analytics to investigate security events -- **Prevent attacks**: Protect endpoints and cloud workloads from threats -- **Respond quickly**: Automate response actions and streamline security workflows -- **Comply with regulations**: Meet compliance requirements with built-in reporting and audit capabilities - -{{elastic-sec}} enables security teams to protect their organizations by providing comprehensive visibility into security events and the tools needed to detect, investigate, and respond to threats. - -[Learn more about {{elastic-sec}}](/solutions/security.md) - -## The Elastic Stack - -The {{stack}} is a collection of open source products that work together to help you take data from any source, in any format, and search, analyze, and visualize it. The core components include: - -- **{{es}}**: The distributed search and analytics engine -- **{{kib}}**: The visualization and management interface -- **{{beats}}**: Lightweight data shippers for sending operational data -- **{{ls}}**: A data processing pipeline for transforming and enriching data -- **{{agent}}**: A unified agent for collecting observability and security data - -These components are designed to work together seamlessly, with synchronized releases to simplify installation and upgrades. - -[Learn more about the {{stack}}](/get-started/the-stack.md) - -## Key capabilities - -### Search and relevance - -Elastic provides powerful search capabilities that go beyond simple keyword matching: -- **Full-text search**: Search across large volumes of text with relevance ranking -- **Fuzzy matching**: Find results even with typos or variations -- **Geospatial search**: Search and filter by geographic location -- **AI-powered search**: Enhance search relevance with machine learning and generative AI -- **Multi-language support**: Search across content in multiple languages - -### Analytics and insights - -Transform raw data into actionable insights: -- **Real-time analytics**: Analyze data as it arrives -- **Aggregations**: Perform complex calculations and statistical analysis -- **Time-series analysis**: Track metrics and trends over time -- **Machine learning**: Detect anomalies and predict future trends -- **Data visualization**: Create dashboards and visualizations to understand your data - -### Scalability and performance - -Built to handle growth: -- **Horizontal scaling**: Add nodes to scale out as your data grows -- **Distributed architecture**: Automatically distribute data and queries across nodes -- **High availability**: Built-in replication and failover capabilities -- **Performance optimization**: Tune for your specific use case and workload - -### Security and compliance - -Protect your data and meet compliance requirements: -- **Authentication and authorization**: Control who can access your data -- **Encryption**: Encrypt data at rest and in transit -- **Audit logging**: Track all access and changes to your data -- **Compliance features**: Built-in capabilities to meet regulatory requirements - -## Deployment options - -Elastic offers flexible deployment options to meet your operational needs: - -- **{{serverless-full}}**: Fully managed, serverless deployments that automatically scale with your needs -- **{{ech}}**: Managed service on Elastic Cloud with full control over configuration -- **Self-managed**: Deploy and manage Elastic on your own infrastructure - -[Learn more about deployment options](/get-started/deployment-options.md) - -## Use cases - -Organizations use Elastic for a wide variety of use cases: - -- **Enterprise search**: Build search experiences for internal knowledge bases, documentation, and content -- **E-commerce**: Power product search, recommendations, and personalization -- **Application monitoring**: Monitor application performance and troubleshoot issues -- **Security operations**: Detect and respond to security threats -- **Log management**: Centralize and analyze logs from across your infrastructure -- **Business intelligence**: Analyze business data and create dashboards -- **Content discovery**: Help users discover relevant content in applications -- **Fraud detection**: Identify fraudulent activity in real-time - -## Getting started - -Ready to get started with Elastic? Here are some recommended next steps: - -1. **[Explore solutions](/solutions/index.md)**: Learn more about Elasticsearch, Observability, and Security solutions -2. **[Understand the Stack](/get-started/the-stack.md)**: Learn how Elastic components work together -3. **[Choose a deployment option](/get-started/deployment-options.md)**: Select the deployment approach that fits your needs -4. **[Try Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/cloud/elasticsearch-service/signup)**: Sign up for a free trial to explore Elastic Cloud - -Whether you're building search experiences, monitoring your infrastructure, or securing your environment, Elastic provides the platform and solutions to help you succeed. - - From 6e298bf6dd9e9e712c6ba78508dded635afd4d91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kilfoyle Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:01:26 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] remove comma --- .../cloud-organization/billing/security-billing-dimensions.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/security-billing-dimensions.md b/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/security-billing-dimensions.md index 8120875416..22dbf341f7 100644 --- a/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/security-billing-dimensions.md +++ b/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/security-billing-dimensions.md @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Your monthly bill is based on the capabilities you use. When you use Security An Data volumes for ingest and retention are based on the fully enriched normalized data size at the end of the ingest pipeline, before {{es}} compression is performed, and will be higher than the volumes traditionally reported by {{es}} index size. In addition, these volumes might be larger than those reported by cloud provider proxy logs for data going into {{es}}. This allows you to have flexibility in choosing your preferred ingest architecture for enrichment, whether it’s through {{agent}}, {{ls}}, OpenTelemetry, or collectors — with no impact on the cost. -[Create a serverless estimate](https://cloud.elastic.co/pricing/serverless?s=security), or refer to the [{{ecloud}} pricing table](https://cloud.elastic.co/cloud-pricing-table?productType=serverless&project=security) for more details. +[Create a serverless estimate](https://cloud.elastic.co/pricing/serverless?s=security) or refer to the [{{ecloud}} pricing table](https://cloud.elastic.co/cloud-pricing-table?productType=serverless&project=security) for more details. ## Endpoint Protection [security-billing-endpoint-protection]