Open Future Blog by Syone

If you're using Elasticsearch, you're already tapping into one of the most powerful open source search and analytics engines out there. But have you ever felt stuck dealing with scale, security, or monitoring limitations? If so, you’re not alone.  

Nowadays, organizations face the challenge of collecting, cleaning, transforming, and routing vast amounts of data from different sources. This is where Logstash, a core component of the Elastic Stack, becomes a critical solution.

The Elastic Stack, formerly known as the ELK Stack, is a powerful suite of tools that helps organizations make sense of massive volumes of data in real time. It combines three key components: Elasticsearch for storing and querying data, Logstash for data ingestion and transformation, and Kibana for visualization and analysis.

Elasticsearch is widely known for its powerful search and analytics capabilities, but its true value is often unlocked through seamless integration with Kibana, the visualization layer of the Elastic Stack. Together, Elasticsearch and Kibana enable organizations to explore data, detect patterns, and present insights clearly and interactively.

Elasticsearch has long been the go-to platform for real-time search and analytics, enabling organizations to manage and analyze massive datasets with speed and precision. However, since Elastic changed its licence from Apache 2.0 to the Server Side Public License (SSPL) in 2021, the open-source community has taken a different path, leading to the birth of OpenSearch, a fork led by Amazon Web Services (AWS).