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Overview

X-Pack features are Elasticsearch's official commercial features, including security, SQL, machine learning, and monitoring. It facilitates the application development and OPS management of Elasticsearch services. ES offers editions that come with such features, which you can select when purchasing and creating a cluster. The features in different editions are detailed below.

Purchase Guide

As shown in the figure above, there are options for the X-Pack features on the ES purchase page. ES offers three editions that have different X-Pack features as follows:

Purchase recommendation
In order to be able to use more advanced features in ES, we recommend that you choose the Platinum Edition when you create a cluster. The specific features and differences of each edition are detailed below. For pricing information, please see Product Pricing.

X-Pack Overview

This document describes some of the commonly used X-Pack features. For more information, please see Elasticsearch's official Elastic Stack subscriptions and API documentation.

Note：

• Some features vary by editions (Basic, Platinum, and Open Source).
• Some features are unavailable in earlier ES versions. For more information, please submit a ticket.

• Security
  This feature supports refined read/write permission control at the index and field levels and effectively protects data security by enabling data security protection and business access isolation, granting access to the right people, and preventing malicious attacks and data leakage.
  
• Machine learning
  In the application scenario of custom data alerting, it is sometimes difficult to set rules and thresholds to define the changes. In this case, the trend in data changes and reasonable fluctuation range can be predicted by the unattended machine learning feature, and when the data deviates from the normal trend, alarms will be triggered and notifications sent.
• Monitoring
  Monitoring information can be comprehensively collected at multiple levels such as cluster, node, and index, helping you understand the cluster operations in real time and facilitating your application development and OPS.
  
• SQL
  This feature makes full-text search and statistical analysis of Elasticsearch data possible through traditional database SQL tools. CLI and REST access methods are supported. The Platinum Edition further supports JDBC connection. This feature enables you to seamlessly connect ES with your existing business systems and thus reduces your learning costs for new technologies.
  

  In terms of SQL support, the Open Source Edition integrates with other SQL plugins. For more information, please see elasticsearch-sql.

Detailed comparison among editions

This section mainly compares and highlights some key features of different Elasticsearch versions. As Elasticsearch is in a stage of rapid development, and the support for various features by different versions is constantly adjusted, we do not guarantee that the following content can stay in sync with the changes in the community.

For the latest and most accurate feature comparison, please see Elasticsearch's official Elastic Stack subscriptions.

In the table below, , , and are used to indicate the feature completeness. : all; : partial; : none.

Module	Feature	Open Source	Basic	Platinum
Elasticsearch	Scalability and resiliency
	Query and analytics
	Data enrichment
	Management and tooling
	Security
	Machine Learning
Kibana	Explore and visualize
	Stack management and tooling
	Stack monitoring
	Share and collaborate
	Security
	Machine learning
Beats	Data collection
	Data shipping
	Module
	Monitoring and management
Logstash	Data collection
	Data enrichment
	Data shipping
	Module
	Monitoring and management
ELASTIC APM	APM server
	APM agents
	APM dashboards in Kibana
	APM UI
	Distributed tracing
	Machine learning integration
Elastic Logs	Log shipper (Filebeat)
	Dashboards for common data sources
	Logs UI
Elastic Infrastructure	Metric shipper (Metricbeat)
	Dashboards for common data sources
	Infrastructure UI
Elastic Uptime	Uptime monitor (Heartbeat)
	Uptime dashboards in Kibana
	Uptime UI

Detailed descriptions of certain Elasticsearch features:

In the table below, ✓ means the feature is available, - means not available.