Introducing Elasticsearch 5.x

In 2015, Elasticsearch, after acquiring Kibana, Logstash, Beats, and Found, re-branded the company name as Elastic. According to Shay Banon, the name change is part of an initiative to better align the company with the broad solutions it provides: future products, and new innovations created by Elastic's massive community of developers and enterprises that utilize the ELK stack for everything from real-time search, to sophisticated analytics, to building modern data applications.

But having several products under one hood resulted in discord among them during the release process and started creating confusion for the users. This resulted in the ELK stack being renamed to Elastic Stack and the company decided to keep ...

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