# About the Elastic Stack category

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elastic-stack-category/235254>\
**Category:** Elastic Stack\
**Created:** [June 1, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elastic-stack-category/235254 "2020-06-01T23:57:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elastic-stack-category/235254/1 "2020-06-01T23:57:55Z")

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## Meet the core products — all free and open

[Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch), [Kibana](https://www.elastic.co/kibana), [Beats](https://www.elastic.co/beats), and [Logstash](http://www.elastic.co/logstash) - also known as the [ELK Stack](https://www.elastic.co/elk-stack). Reliably and securely take data from any source, in any format, then search, analyze, and visualize it in real time.  
Please post your your topic under the relevant product category: #Elastic Stack > Elasticsearch, #Elastic Stack > Kibana, #Elastic Stack > Beats, #Elastic Stack > Logstash, #Elastic Stack > Elastic Agent , #Elastic Stack > Monitoring.