Elastic N.V. reports developments in search AI software, observability, and security built on its Search AI Platform. Company news commonly covers Jina embedding models for text and multimodal retrieval, Elastic Inference Service availability, partner model deployments, and product integrations that bring search, classification, clustering, and data exploration into enterprise workflows.
Recurring updates also include Elastic Observability features such as Prometheus ingestion, PromQL support in Kibana, and incident investigation tools, as well as Elastic Security capabilities for XDR, SIEM, automation, and agentic security operations. Other company developments include cloud partnerships, air-gapped and sovereign-cloud deployments, federal cloud authorization, and pricing or packaging changes for security offerings.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced that Gartner named it a Leader in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, marking its third consecutive year in this position. According to Elastic, Gartner evaluated vendors on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.
Elastic also reported ranking first in three of seven use cases in Gartner’s 2026 Critical Capabilities for Observability Platforms. The company highlights differentiation through deep OpenTelemetry integration, MCP support with an in-development autonomous SRE agent, and a business model claiming up to 4x more efficient log/trace storage and up to 40% faster log queries.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) reported that Elastic Security achieved the only 100% malware protection score among 16 security vendors in the AV-Comparatives 2026 Business Security Test for March–June 2026. The platform also tied for the top result in the Real-World Protection Test with a 99.8% protection rate (399 of 400 threats blocked) and received the AV-Comparatives Approved Business Product Award.
The independent tests ran on fully patched Windows 11, using 1,000 malware samples and 400 real-world threat cases. Elastic Security’s results were achieved with zero false alarms on common business software, supported by its Elastic Defend endpoint protection and unified security platform.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced new observability capabilities that unify metrics and logs on a single platform. Built on Elasticsearch's columnar metrics engine, it offers native Prometheus/PromQL support, out-of-the-box Kubernetes agentic investigations, and automated migration from Datadog and Grafana.
The engine can query metrics up to 30x faster than Prometheus and store data up to 2.5x more efficiently, with no cardinality limits. New features include Prometheus Remote Write ingest, ML-driven anomaly detection workflows, SRE-focused dashboards, and an Observability MCP App and agent skills. Core capabilities are generally available across Elastic Cloud, serverless, and self-managed deployments, while the MCP App, agent skills, and migration platform are in tech preview.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced it was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM 2026 Vendor Assessment. The report highlights Elastic Security’s unified data query language, scalability for log ingestion, and support for observability on the same platform.
IDC cites Elastic’s broad deployment options (self-managed, hosted, serverless, air-gapped), feature parity across environments, subscription model with a free tier, and significant public sector presence, including a FedRAMP‑authorized SIEM-as-a-service for the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) was named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Extended Detection And Response Platforms, Q2 2026. The evaluation highlights Elastic Security’s SIEM-replacement features, open data architecture, AI-driven capabilities, and native endpoint protection.
Elastic notes its agentic security operations platform unifies SIEM, XDR, and automation, with endpoint protection that achieved 14 consecutive months of 100% rates in AV-Comparatives’ Malware and Real-World Protection Tests.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced new Kubernetes investigation workflows and MCP-based observability skills that automatically analyze logs, metrics, anomalies, and cluster events when alerts fire.
Elastic Observability now offers an agentic workflow and a Kubernetes MCP App, enabling SREs to diagnose incidents conversationally within existing AI tools and IDEs.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) reported Q4 FY26 revenue of $451 million, up 16% year-over-year, with subscription revenue of $422 million, up 17%. GAAP operating loss was $16 million, while non-GAAP operating income was $67 million.
For FY26, revenue reached $1.739 billion, up 17% year-over-year. GAAP operating loss was $33 million; non-GAAP operating income was $285 million, and adjusted free cash flow was $346 million. Rule of 40 measured 37%.
Elastic provided FY27 guidance for revenue of $1.985–$2.000 billion, non-GAAP operating margin of 19%, non-GAAP EPS of $3.21–$3.29, and adjusted free cash flow margin of 21.5%. The company repurchased $340 million of shares under a $500 million program.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) announced that management will present at two upcoming investor conferences: the BofA Securities Global Technology Conference 2026 on June 4, 2026, and Rosenblatt’s 6th Annual Technology Summit on June 10, 2026. Both presentations will be available via live and replay webcasts on Elastic’s investor relations website.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) will release its fourth quarter and fiscal 2026 results, for the period ended April 30, 2026, after the U.S. market close on Thursday, May 28, 2026.
The company will host a conference call and live webcast that same day, with a replay available for two months.
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) launched the jina-embeddings-v5-omni family, two multimodal embedding models (small and nano) for text, image, video, and audio search. They share the same text embedding space as v5-text, enabling multimodal indexing without rebuilding existing indices.
According to Elastic, v5-omni delivers adjustable embedding sizes, multilingual support, strong benchmark results across four modalities, and flexible deployment via Elastic Inference Service, the Jina API, or local download, with free non-commercial model weights.