Elastic Stack

The Elastic Stack (formerly known as the ELK Stack) is a collection of open-source products from Elastic designed to help users take data from any source, in any format, and search, analyze, and visualize that data in real-time. The stack includes Elasticsearch for search and analytics, Kibana for visualization, Logstash for data processing, and Beats for data shipping.

Elastic Stack publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Bulk API, Cluster API, Doc API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Analytics, Logging, Monitoring, Observability, and Search.

Elastic Stack’s developer surface includes documentation, pricing, engineering blog, support, and 8 more developer resources.

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34.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFreemium

7 APIs

AnalyticsLoggingMonitoringObservabilitySearch

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Composite quality — 34.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.3 / 20

Access Clarity 8.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Elastic Stack Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: elastic-stack
name: Elastic Stack
description: The Elastic Stack (formerly known as the ELK Stack) is a collection of open-source products from Elastic designed
  to help users take data from any source, in any format, and search, analyze, and visualize that data in real-time. The stack
  includes Elasticsearch for search and analytics, Kibana for visualization, Logstash for data processing, and Beats for data
  shipping.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/elastic-stack.png
tags:
- Analytics
- Logging
- Monitoring
- Observability
- Search
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic-stack/
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: elastic-stack:kibana-api
  name: Kibana API
  description: Data visualization and exploration tool API for Elasticsearch, providing dashboards, saved objects, alerting,
    and spaces management.
  humanURL: https://www.elastic.co/kibana/
  baseURL: https://localhost:5601/api
  tags:
  - Analytics
  - Dashboards
  - Visualization
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/api.html
- aid: elastic-stack:elastic-stack-bulk-api
  name: Elastic Stack Bulk API
  description: The Bulk API from Elastic Stack — 1 operation(s) for bulk.
  humanURL: https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/
  baseURL: https://localhost:9200
  tags:
  - Bulk
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elastic-stack-bulk-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rest-apis.html
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/elastic-stack-graphql.md
- aid: elastic-stack:elastic-stack-cluster-api
  name: Elastic Stack Cluster API
  description: The Cluster API from Elastic Stack — 1 operation(s) for cluster.
  humanURL: https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/
  baseURL: https://localhost:9200
  tags:
  - Cluster
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elastic-stack-cluster-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rest-apis.html
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/elastic-stack-graphql.md
- aid: elastic-stack:elastic-stack-doc-api
  name: Elastic Stack Doc API
  description: The Doc API from Elastic Stack — 1 operation(s) for doc.
  humanURL: https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/
  baseURL: https://localhost:9200
  tags:
  - Doc
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elastic-stack-doc-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rest-apis.html
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/elastic-stack-graphql.md
- aid: elastic-stack:elastic-stack-elasticsearch-api-api
  name: Elastic Stack Elasticsearch API API
  description: The Elasticsearch API API from Elastic Stack — 1 operation(s) for elasticsearch api.
  humanURL: https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/
  baseURL: https://localhost:9200
  tags:
  - Elasticsearch API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elastic-stack-elasticsearch-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rest-apis.html
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/elastic-stack-graphql.md
- aid: elastic-stack:elastic-stack-search-api
  name: Elastic Stack Search API
  description: The Search API from Elastic Stack — 1 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/
  baseURL: https://localhost:9200
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elastic-stack-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rest-apis.html
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/elastic-stack-graphql.md
- aid: elastic-stack:elastic-stack-settings-api
  name: Elastic Stack Settings API
  description: The Settings API from Elastic Stack — 1 operation(s) for settings.
  humanURL: https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/
  baseURL: https://localhost:9200
  tags:
  - Settings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elastic-stack-settings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rest-apis.html
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/elastic-stack-graphql.md
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/elastic-stack-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/elastic-stack-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/elastic-stack-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.elastic.co/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.elastic.co/guide/index.html
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.elastic.co/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.elastic.co/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://www.elastic.co/support
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.elastic.co
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.elastic.co/agreements
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.elastic.co/legal/privacy-statement
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/elastic
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.elastic.co/integrations
integrations:
- name: Become a partner
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com