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Elasticsearch Guide

Search and analyze your data

Elasticsearch is the search and analytics engine that powers the Elastic Stack.

Introduction What's new Release notes

Get to know Elasticsearch

Install, manage, and secure

Ingest data

Search and analyze

Data management

APIs and developer docs

Explore by use case

Search my data

Create search experiences for your content, wherever it lives.

Observe my data

Follow our guides to monitor logs, metrics, and traces.

Protect my environment

Learn how to defend against threats across your environment.

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