Goodbye log swamp, hello Streams

Streams brings AI-assisted parsing, intelligent logs organization, and proactive event detection into a simple, intuitive workflow, so you can focus on solving problems, not wrangling pipelines.

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CORE CAPABILITIES

Chaos → Clarity

SREs are drowning in alerts and brittle pipelines because the "why" behind most incidents is buried in chaotic, context-rich logs. Streams turns that chaos into clarity in minutes, giving you the answers you need to make logs your first stop for investigations.

  • LOG PARSING & STRUCTURING

    Tame the log pipeline

    Turn chaotic log lines into structured, queryable data. Streams uses AI to find patterns, extract fields, and partition your logs automatically — cutting through noise before the investigation begins.

  • SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

    Investigations in minutes

    Start your investigations with logs. Significant Events uses agentic AI to automatically flag signals to watch, such as errors, anomalies, or certificate expirations — so you can focus on cause, not clutter.

  • AGENTLESS INGEST

    Just send us your logs

    Ingest any logs from any source, from OpenTelemetry, Fluentd, or through Elastic's one-click integrations. You can stream directly to our /logs endpoint — no agents required.

  • OPTIMIZED RETENTION

    Scale without the bloat

    Streams runs on Elasticsearch, the world's most popular open source search platform, built to handle massive log volumes without slowing performance, dropping data, or blowing up cost.

Powered by agentic AI
In Elastic, agentic workflows organize logs, surface significant events, and guide investigations. Combined with organizational context grounded in your knowledgebases and runbooks, fast ES|QL queries, and machine learning, agentic AI turns raw logs into a ready-to-use source of truth.

GUIDED DEMO

From raw logs to real answers

From ingest to investigation, Streams simplifies and automates the work of building custom pipelines and manually extracting fields, giving you clean, structured, high-fidelity data and helping you find the needle in the haystack.

Log management made easy

Forget grepping through petabytes of logs. Streams detects patterns humans can't see, parsing, partitioning, and structuring logs, and surfacing significant events with AI.

Elastic
Your current solution
Log parsing and enrichment
Streams structures and enriches raw logs with AI — no manual pipelines or regex. Metadata, fields, and insights are added automatically.
Manual parsing and regex setup required. Limited or no GenAI support. Basic enrichment depends on static rules or custom code.
Log partitioning and organization
Streams uses agentic AI to intelligently partition and route logs, organizing them by type, source, or content.
Static indices or manual routing — no adaptive partitioning.
Faster investigations
Significant Events uses agentic AI to highlight important log events without manual setup.
Requires manual configuration or ML add-ons to detect anomalies. Relies on dashboards and manual searches to find patterns.
Simplified ingest — no pipeline headaches
Skip complex ingest pipelines — no agents required. Just send to /logs and Streams handles parsing and routing. Automatic OTel-native schema conversion.
Manual pipelines and field mappings required for every data source.
Efficient retention and performance at scale
Streams helps SREs surface and retain the most critical data. Elasticsearch is optimized for massive, noisy datasets, with dense compression and horizontal scalability.
Scaling often means re-architecting pipelines, dropping data, or paying more for ingest.
Fast, flexible queries
ES|QL powers blazing-fast queries across petabytes of data. Complex queries can be automatically generated by agentic AI from use cases described in natural language.
Slow query languages with steep learning curves.
Log parsing and enrichment
Log partitioning and organization
Faster investigations
Simplified ingest — no pipeline headaches
Efficient retention and performance at scale
Fast, flexible queries
Elastic
Your current solution
Streams structures and enriches raw logs with AI — no manual pipelines or regex. Metadata, fields, and insights are added automatically.
Manual parsing and regex setup required. Limited or no GenAI support. Basic enrichment depends on static rules or custom code.
Streams uses agentic AI to intelligently partition and route logs, organizing them by type, source, or content.
Static indices or manual routing — no adaptive partitioning.
Significant Events uses agentic AI to highlight important log events without manual setup.
Requires manual configuration or ML add-ons to detect anomalies. Relies on dashboards and manual searches to find patterns.
Skip complex ingest pipelines — no agents required. Just send to /logs and Streams handles parsing and routing. Automatic OTel-native schema conversion.
Manual pipelines and field mappings required for every data source.
Streams helps SREs surface and retain the most critical data. Elasticsearch is optimized for massive, noisy datasets, with dense compression and horizontal scalability.
Scaling often means re-architecting pipelines, dropping data, or paying more for ingest.
ES|QL powers blazing-fast queries across petabytes of data. Complex queries can be automatically generated by agentic AI from use cases described in natural language.
Slow query languages with steep learning curves.

Frequently asked questions

Why do logs matter?

Logs are the most ubiquitous, context-rich signal in your stack. Every system produces logs. Logs provide the raw, detailed information needed to understand exactly why an issue occurred and how to fix it. For that reason, they are the primary source of truth for troubleshooting and investigation.

What's wrong with observability today?

As applications became more complex, the volume and variety of logs exploded. Logs became too expensive to store and too hard to extract value from. The industry responded by treating detailed log data as a burden, discarding crucial context, and throwing away the signal with the noise. Now teams are drowning in dashboards and alerts that don't give them the "why" — the answers they need — or else are spending their time maintaining fragile pipelines, instead of solving problems

How is Streams different from traditional observability approaches?

Unlike traditional observability solutions that treat logs as secondary to metrics and traces, Streams makes logs a primary signal for both detection and investigation, helping you get to resolution faster. AI-driven workflows make logs usable and actionable, highlighting the "why" that's missing from traditional observability tools so SREs can resolve incidents faster, without having to spend weeks on data engineering and building complex pipelines.

What types of issues does Significant Events surface?

Significant Events automatically detects critical anomalies and patterns in your logs, such as out-of-memory errors, server crashes, startup/shutdown events, and other operational changes, giving SREs an early warning and a clear starting point for investigation. Events are specific to the system (e.g., Apache Spark) and are automatically flagged based on context. You can filter, group, or explore them directly in the UI.

How does Streams help SREs reduce time spent on pipeline management?

Streams uses AI to simplify parsing, enrichment, partitioning, and schema updates, removing the need to maintain complex Grok patterns or custom pipelines. SREs can begin investigating issues within minutes, rather than spending weeks on pipeline setup and data engineering.

How does Streams help control storage costs?

By surfacing the most critical logs and automatically structuring data for efficient storage, Streams allows SREs to retain high-value data without discarding important information, reducing overall storage costs.

Do I need to rewrite my existing pipelines to use Streams?

No. Streams works with your existing data sources and ingestion points. It can augment or replace pipelines over time without breaking your current workflows.

Can Streams be used to replace Splunk or other legacy logging tools?

Yes. Streams eliminates the need for complex pipelines, high-cost ingestion, and manual log correlation. It provides immediate insights, AI-driven event detection, and cost-effective storage, making it a modern alternative to legacy solutions.