# How does the ELK people earn money and support continuous development?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-the-elk-people-earn-money-and-support-continuous-development/145319>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 21, 2018, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-the-elk-people-earn-money-and-support-continuous-development/145319 "2018-08-21T07:50:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![groverjatin17](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/groverjatin17/32/34657_2.png) [@groverjatin17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/groverjatin17)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-the-elk-people-earn-money-and-support-continuous-development/145319/1 "2018-08-21T07:50:13Z")

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I am fairly new to this and i was asked this question by my manager and i had not answer. i have read few terms like paid elastic cloud subscription or plugins but can anyone please explain Who and How's of the various ways ELK people earn and support upgrades.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-the-elk-people-earn-money-and-support-continuous-development/145319/2 "2018-08-21T07:52:48Z")

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Subscriptions to our commercial functionality and support, training and consulting services, hosted platforms like Elastic Cloud.

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**Author:** ![groverjatin17](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/groverjatin17/32/34657_2.png) [@groverjatin17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/groverjatin17)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-the-elk-people-earn-money-and-support-continuous-development/145319/3 "2018-08-21T09:04:00Z")

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- But do you guys support in the development/enhancement/feature req/bug fixes etc of the ELK as well or the general GitHub community does that?

- And if your client ask for a specific feature addition, do you provide that under subscription or by extra changes?

- By using your your cloud platform. Is it secure for any financial institution as well?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-the-elk-people-earn-money-and-support-continuous-development/145319/4 "2018-08-21T09:06:06Z")

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We do accept contributions to all our code from the community, but we are the main maintainers.  
We don't do paid features.

> [@groverjatin17](#):
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> - By using your your cloud platform. Is it secure for any financial institution as well?

Depends what your requirements are really.

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**Author:** ![groverjatin17](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/groverjatin17/32/34657_2.png) [@groverjatin17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/groverjatin17)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-the-elk-people-earn-money-and-support-continuous-development/145319/5 "2018-08-23T07:10:10Z")

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Okay got it.  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-the-elk-people-earn-money-and-support-continuous-development/145319/6 "2018-09-20T07:10:11Z")

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