Solutions and use cases
Tip
New to Elastic? Refer toElastic Fundamentals to understand the Elastic Stack, its components, and your deployment options.
Elastic helps you build applications for three main use cases: search, observability, and security. You can work directly with platform capabilities through APIs, use pre-built solutions with integrated UIs, or combine both approaches.
| Your use case | What to use | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Building search-powered applications | 1.Core search capabilities 2.Elasticsearch solution | 1. Core Elasticsearch search features available across all deployment types, solutions, and project types 2. Additional UI tools that complement the core search features |
| Monitoring applications or infrastructure | Observability solution | Monitor and troubleshoot with logs, metrics, and traces |
| Protecting against threats | Security solution | Detect and respond to security threats |
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Not sure which to choose? Start with the Elasticsearch solution, if you don't need the additional features in Elastic Observability or Elastic Security.
- On Elastic Cloud Serverless, select a solution as your project type when creating a project.
- On Elastic Cloud Hosted, ECE, ECK, and self-managed clusters, select a default solution view when creating a deployment, or configure perspace.