ElastiFlow
The facts below are what the maker publishes about ElastiFlow, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From ElastiFlow's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | Free | 4,000 records/s · 25 SNMP devices · 40+ dashboards · 120+ ML detections · metadata enrichment · Slack/forum support |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | 1M+ records/s · Premium features · ElastiFlow-assisted dashboards, enrichments and training · dedicated 24x7 support representative |
| Premium | Priced on request | 1M+ records/s · cloud and application enrichment · NetIntel threat feed · MITRE ATT&CK mapping · non-production license · 8x5 support |
The facts
Each one read from ElastiFlow's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Bandwidth monitoring
- Dashboards identify bandwidth usage, top talkers, top listeners and high-consuming applications.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Community
- ElastiFlow says more than 40,000 users leverage its products.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Community activity
- The official forum lists recurring topics about interface recognition, collector resource use, dashboard deployment, storage and flow-processing errors.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- The Trust Center lists a SOC 2 Type 2 report dated January 31, 2026.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Dashboards and ML
- NetObserv includes prebuilt dashboards and machine-learning jobs; the Basic plan lists 40-plus dashboards and 120-plus detections.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- NetObserv installation documentation provides Docker, Linux, Ansible, and Helm deployment options.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The docs cover NetObserv, NetIntel, configuration reference, quickstart deployment and community support through Slack and a forum.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Enrichment
- Official materials describe GeoIP, autonomous-system, IP-reputation, cloud-service and application enrichment.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Flow fields
- ElastiFlow extracts more than 6,200 standard and vendor-specific fields from flow records.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Founders
- Crunchbase names Robert Cowart as co-founder and CEO and Sven Cowart as co-founder and CTO.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Funding
- ElastiFlow announced a $3 million seed round led by Venture Guides on December 20, 2023.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Granular visibility
- The product exposes flow details such as source and destination addresses, ports, protocols and traffic attributes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Growth recognition
- Inc. lists ElastiFlow as a 2026 Inc. 5000 honoree ranked No. 593, with 588% three-year growth.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The documentation provides a virtual-appliance quickstart, and the appliance guide supports VMware, KVM and Proxmox deployment.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Documented data platforms include Elasticsearch, Elastic Cloud, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, OpenSearch, AWS OpenSearch Service, Apache Kafka, Confluent, Redpanda, Splunk and Cribl Stream.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Legacy licence
- The archived Rob Cowart repository uses the Robert Cowart Public License, which excludes commercial use and redistribution.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Legal name
- Crunchbase identifies the legal entity as ElastiFlow Inc.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The current collector is distributed under ElastiFlow proprietary community and commercial EULAs rather than an OSI open-source licence.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: backend dependency
- The same independent analysis cautions that ElastiFlow requires a supported backend such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Kafka, Splunk or Cribl Stream.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: exporter quality
- The independent analysis notes that unreliable, sampled or malformed exporter data limits the quality of ElastiFlow results.checked 15 Oct 2026
Money
- Capacity planning
- Historical flow analysis is used to identify trends, plan upgrades and avoid bottlenecks.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company profile
- LinkedIn lists ElastiFlow as a privately held software-development company founded in 2020 with 11–50 employees and Atlanta headquarters.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2017checked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Data platforms
- Supported data platforms include Elasticsearch, Elastic Cloud, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, OpenSearch, AWS OpenSearch Service, Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, Redpanda, Splunk, and Cribl Stream.checked 1 Oct 2026
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