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Announcements
Release announcements, end of life notifications and other bits about Elastic products that we think will be useful to everyone.
Beats
Any questions regarding Beats, forwarders for various types of data: Packetbeat for network metrics... and more to come!
Elasticsearch
Any questions related to Elasticsearch, including specific features, language clients and plugins.
Logstash
Everything related to your favorite centralized logging platform, including plugins and recipes.
Elastic Cloud
The <a href="https://www.elastic.co/found" rel="nofollow">Elastic Cloud</a> forum is dedicated to all questions related to Elastic’s hosted Elasticsearch, Kibana, and X-Pack service.
Elastic Cloud Enterprise
The Elastic Cloud Enterprise forum is dedicated to all questions related to Elastic’s on-premise Elastic Stack and X-Pack provisioning service.
Hadoop and Elasticsearch
Questions about Elasticsearch and all things Hadoop (Map/Reduce, Hive, Pig, Cascading, Spark and friends)
Kibana
All things about visualizing data in Elasticsearch & Logstash, including how to use Kibana and extending the platform.
X-Pack
X-Pack brings Security, Alerting, Monitoring, Graph, Reporting, and Machine Learning capabilities to the Elastic Stack. This replaces the separate Shield, Watcher, Marvel, and Graph categories.
Shield
Using 5.0? Please join our <a class="hashtag" href="/c/50-x-pack">#<span>x-pack</span></a> list!<br>Security for your Elastic stack.
Marvel
Using 5.0? Please join our <a class="hashtag" href="/c/50-x-pack">#<span>x-pack</span></a> list!<br>Everything you ever wanted to know about Elastic's custom built plugin to manage and monitor your Elasticsearch clusters.
Watcher
Using 5.0? Please join our <a class="hashtag" href="/c/50-x-pack">#<span>x-pack</span></a> list!<br>Watcher is a commercial plugin for Elasticsearch that allows you to trigger alerts and notifications based on changes in your data. For an overview and demo video, <a href="https://www.elastic.co/webinars/watcher-alerting-for-elasticsearch?elektra=discuss">click here</a>.
Graph
Using 5.0? Please join our <a class="hashtag" href="/c/50-x-pack">#<span>x-pack</span></a> list! <br>Explore the relationships that live in your data. <a href="https://www.elastic.co/products/graph">Learn more</a> or <a href="https://www.elastic.co/webinars/sneak-peek-of-graph-capabilities-with-elasticsearch">watch the webinar</a>
Reporting
Using 5.0? Please join our <a class="hashtag" href="/c/50-x-pack">#<span>x-pack</span></a> list!<br>Reporting is a product in the commercial lineup that allows you to easily generate PDFs of your Kibana searches, visualizations, and dashboards. It’s great for getting a snapshot of your data and sharing it with anyone.
Ecosystem
Using Elastic's tech with other tools and products - how to and what to choose for your use case, or show us what you've built!
Elastic In Your Native Tongue
If you'd rather ask your question in a language other than English, you've come to the right place!
Elastic User Groups
Anything and everything about Elastic meetups, including tips and tricks from your fellow organizers and sharing the best of talks from user group meetings.
Meta Elastic
Have feedback on this discussion forum and how it could be improved? Start here.
Security Announcements
Top level category to house subcategories for security announcements for the Elastic stack.
Elastic Training
Taking an online <a href="http://training.elastic.co">Elastic training</a> course? Do you have questions about the curriculum, running into problems with the materials, or just want to provide some feedback?