Elastic fundamentals

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Welcome to Elastic fundamentals!

In this section, we'll walk you through the basics of what our products offer, what they do, how they can help your business, and how to set them up. You'll get a quick look at the core features and concepts, real-world use cases, and deployment options to understand how everything fits together.

You'll also find other helpful information, such as how to use our docs, training resources, and a link to our glossary so you can familiarize yourself with our terminology. Whether you're exercising your options and are curious about what Elastic can offer, are just getting started, or are looking to dive deeper, this is a great place to begin.

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Elastic provides an open source search, analytics, and AI platform, and out-of-the-box solutions for observability and security. The Search AI platform combines the power of search and generative AI to provide near real-time search and analysis with relevance to reduce your time to value.

Elastic offers the following solutions or types of projects:

• Elasticsearch: Build powerful search and RAG applications using Elasticsearch's vector database, AI toolkit, and advanced retrieval capabilities.
• Elastic Observability: Gain comprehensive visibility into applications, infrastructure, and user experience through logs, metrics, traces, and other telemetry data, all in a single interface.
• Elastic Security: Combine SIEM, endpoint security, and cloud security to provide comprehensive tools for threat detection and prevention, investigation, and response.

Continue your journey with these essential guides that will help you understand and work with Elastic:

• The Elastic Stack: Dive deeper into how the Elastic Stack—our suite of open-source tools, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash—components work together. Learn about data ingestion methods and understand the core concepts of storing, visualizing, and querying your data.

• Deployment options: Explore the different ways you can deploy Elastic, from fully managed serverless solutions to self-managed installations, and choose the approach that best fits your operational needs.

• Versioning and availability: Learn how Elastic handles versioning, understand feature availability across different deployment types, and navigate our continuously updated documentation with confidence.

Whether you are just getting started with Elastic, an expert, or simply want to expand your knowledge, we provide role-based and solution-based training to empower you to get the most out of our solutions. You can even receive accreditation for completing our courses.

Ready to dive in? Check out https://elastic.cloud-croc.ru/training to browse our virtual and on-demand training courses. If you're unsure where to start, check out the Elasticsearch Engineer course.

To explore particular, more granular facets of the Elastic Stack, check out our demo gallery. You can filter by solution or subject area and choose the training style that best suits you.

If you prefer a deep dive where you can learn at your own pace, check out our six-part Beginner's Crash Course to Elastic Stack on YouTube.