On the Record · Elastic
Elastic competitors, on the record
The companies Elastic names as competitors in its annual reports, 2024 to 2026, and the companies that name Elastic, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who Elastic names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| Algolia | 2026 |
| Amazon | 2026 |
| AWS | 2026 |
| CrowdStrike | 2026 |
| Datadog | 2026 |
In its own words
Algolia
Word for word“Our principal competitors include: • For Search & AI: providers of traditional search offerings, such as Algolia, Apache Solr (open source offering), and Coveo; native vector databases, such as Pinecone, Qdrant, and Weaviate; database platforms with integrated vector search, such as MongoDB Atlas; and search tools, such as Google Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) and Microsoft Azure AI Search.” 10-K for 2026
Amazon
Word for word“Through these offerings, Amazon competes with us for potential customers, and while Amazon cannot provide our proprietary software, Amazon’s offerings reduce the demand for our products and the pricing of Amazon’s offerings may limit our ability to adjust the prices of our products.” 10-K for 2026
AWS
Word for word“Certain cloud hosting providers and MSPs, including AWS, offer hosted products or services based on a forked version of our platform, which means they offer a service that includes some of the features that we had previously made available under an open source license.” 10-K for 2026
CrowdStrike
Word for word“• For Elastic Security: security vendors, such as Azure Sentinel (owned by Microsoft), CrowdStrike, Google SecOps, Palo Alto Networks, and Splunk (owned by Cisco Systems).” 10-K for 2026
Datadog
Word for word“• For Elastic Observability: software vendors with specific observability solutions, such as AppDynamics and Splunk (each owned by Cisco Systems), Datadog, Dynatrace, and New Relic.” 10-K for 2026
Who names Elastic
Companies whose own annual reports name Elastic as a competitor.
Word for word“Our principal competitors include Cisco (which includes AppDynamics and Splunk), Datadog, Elastic, Grafana, and New Relic.” 10-K for 2026
Read from Elastic’s annual reports (10-K for 2026, 10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-06-08. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.