Elastic is a search company that builds self-managed and SaaS offerings that make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases. The company was founded in 2012 by Shay Banon and has since grown to over 2,500 employees. Elastic's products are built on open source technology, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, and are used by thousands of organizations worldwide. Elastic went public in 2018 and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ESTC.