The best features of the Elastic Stack are that it is mostly out of the box. Predominantly it is built as an indexing tool to store logs and gives me the ability to search quicker. Over time, they have built many frameworks on top of it, such as the security feature and centralized agent monitoring. I can scale the cluster depending on the costing. I have all these data tiers, such as hot, cold, and warm, so based on the customer's use case, I can decide if they only need two days or three days' worth of hot data, and the remaining can be saved in a frozen tier, where everything is saved in an S3 bucket but still accessible for searching. The most important feature now is the Elastic Agent, which comes with out-of-the-box integrations for most firewalls, Windows, Linux, and many other systems, and is improving. All I need to do is deploy the agent, deploy the connector, and they have the out-of-the-box parsers. Moreover, the detections in terms of security come out of the box as well. In terms of go-to-market, I can very quickly deploy a system for any customer without taking much time at all.
