Elastic Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM 2026
Elastic (NYSE:ESTC), the Search AI Company, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM 2026 Vendor Assessment (Doc# US54126826, June 2026). Download the complimentary excerpt here.
The IDC MarketScape's assessment highlights several key strengths of Elastic Security, including:
- Elastic Common Schema and the underlying Elasticsearch engine allow customers to query security and operational data using a single language. Customers report scaling log ingestion volumes by five times without re-architecting, and the same platform supports observability, extending value beyond the security team.
- Elastic Security operates with feature parity across self-managed, hosted, serverless, and disconnected deployments and supports federated cross-cluster search for organizations with data sovereignty requirements. The fit aligns with public sector, utility, and multinational buyers that SaaS-only products cannot serve directly.
- Detection rules are developed in public repositories and updated on a roughly two-week cadence, and the AI assistant exposes a reasoning trace covering prompts, tool calls, and responses. Customers can connect multiple LLMs and select among them per workflow.
- Elastic Defend ships in the enterprise subscription with no per-endpoint fee, and Elastic Workflows provides native automation in the same platform, removing the need to license a separate SOAR for many use cases.
"Elastic's position as a Leader reflects a SIEM platform built for the realities of modern security operations – soaring data volumes, distributed environments, and high velocity workflows with full visibility," said Michelle Abraham, research director, Security and Trust, IDC. "The combination of unified log ingestion, transparent AI reasoning, and native EDR and automation in a single subscription removes procurement complexity that slows most SOC teams down."
"Being recognized as a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide SIEM 2026 is validation that we're solving the right problems," said Mike Nichols, general manager, Security, Elastic. "Our agentic SOC platform puts AI to work across the full threat lifecycle, from first signal to active response, so analysts can focus on what AI can't do, which is to exercise judgment. Most competitors charge you twice to get there. Separate SOARs. Per-endpoint fees. Penalties for looking at your own historical data. We built Elastic Security to do one thing: secure. Without the tax on your time, your wallet, your trust, or your attention."
Elastic Security is the agentic security operations platform consisting of one platform for SIEM, XDR, and native automation. According to the report, "Elastic operates through a subscription model with a free tier, an entry-level subscription, and an enterprise subscription that includes the full security feature set. Public sector presence is significant; Elastic operates a FedRAMP-authorized hosted SIEM-as-a-service platform for the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The vendor has expanded its global partner ecosystem over the past year through a restructured global partnerships team that targets growth through cloud service provider relationships and regional resellers."
The report notes, "Deployment options span self-managed on bare metal or private infrastructure, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, Elastic Cloud Hosted, and Elastic Cloud Serverless, with parity across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and air-gapped environments, including AI features when customers host their own large language model (LLM). Cross-cluster search supports a federated data model in which customer data remains in regional clusters while a central security operations center queries across them, an architecture Elastic uses to address data sovereignty requirements."
For more information, read the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM 2026 Vendor Assessment report and blog.
About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor's position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.
About Elastic
Elastic (NYSE:ESTC), the Search AI Company, integrates its deep expertise in search technology with artificial intelligence to help everyone transform all of their data into answers, actions, and outcomes. Elastic's Search AI Platform — the foundation for its search, observability, and security solutions — is used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500. Learn more at elastic.co.
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