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What it is

ElastiFlow collects and analyzes network flow and telemetry data for network observability and security analytics. Its performance and availability solution is intended to help network operations and engineering teams find and resolve issues across complex, distributed environments. It handles NetFlow, IPFIX, and sFlow, with application visibility, conversation analysis, and bandwidth monitoring. NetObserv offers visibility, open-data-platform integration, pre-built dashboards, and machine-learning jobs. ElastiFlow extracts more than 6,200 standard and vendor-specific fields from flow records and enriches them with GeoIP, autonomous-system, and IP-reputation information. Supported platforms include Elasticsearch, Elastic Cloud, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, OpenSearch, AWS OpenSearch Service, Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, Redpanda, Splunk, and Cribl Stream. Deployment options include Docker, Linux, Ansible, and Helm. The virtual appliance supports VMware ESX, Proxmox, and KVM, and is intended for up to 16,000 flows per second from one location. Basic costs nothing and supports up to 4,000 records per second and 25 SNMP devices. A 30-day trial is available.

Spec sheet

What it does
ElastiFlow collects, normalizes, enriches and analyzes NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow and other network telemetry for observability and security use cases.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.elastiflow.com
Purpose
ElastiFlow provides network observability and security analytics by collecting and analyzing network flow and telemetry data.Read 1 Oct 2026 · docs.elastiflow.com
Deployment
NetObserv installation documentation provides Docker, Linux, Ansible, and Helm deployment options.Read 1 Oct 2026 · docs.elastiflow.com
Integrations
Documented data platforms include Elasticsearch, Elastic Cloud, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, OpenSearch, AWS OpenSearch Service, Apache Kafka, Confluent, Redpanda, Splunk and Cribl Stream.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.elastiflow.com
Compliance
The Trust Center lists a SOC 2 Type 2 report dated January 31, 2026.Read 15 Oct 2026 · trust.elastiflow.com
Support
Basic support is available through the Community Slack and ElastiFlow Forum, while Premium includes 8x5 support and Enterprise includes a dedicated representative available 24x7.Read 1 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Founded
2017Read 28 Sep 2026 · elastiflow.com
Bandwidth monitoring
Dashboards identify bandwidth usage, top talkers, top listeners and high-consuming applications.Read 15 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Capacity planning
Historical flow analysis is used to identify trends, plan upgrades and avoid bottlenecks.Read 15 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Community
ElastiFlow says more than 40,000 users leverage its products.Read 1 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Community activity
The official forum lists recurring topics about interface recognition, collector resource use, dashboard deployment, storage and flow-processing errors.Read 15 Oct 2026 · forum.elastiflow.com
Company profile
LinkedIn lists ElastiFlow as a privately held software-development company founded in 2020 with 11–50 employees and Atlanta headquarters.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com
Dashboards and ML
NetObserv includes prebuilt dashboards and machine-learning jobs; the Basic plan lists 40-plus dashboards and 120-plus detections.Read 15 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
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.Read 1 Oct 2026 · docs.elastiflow.com
Documentation depth
The docs cover NetObserv, NetIntel, configuration reference, quickstart deployment and community support through Slack and a forum.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.elastiflow.com
Enrichment
Official materials describe GeoIP, autonomous-system, IP-reputation, cloud-service and application enrichment.Read 15 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Flow fields
ElastiFlow extracts more than 6,200 standard and vendor-specific fields from flow records.Read 1 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Founders
Crunchbase names Robert Cowart as co-founder and CEO and Sven Cowart as co-founder and CTO.Read 15 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com
Funding
ElastiFlow announced a $3 million seed round led by Venture Guides on December 20, 2023.Read 15 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Granular visibility
The product exposes flow details such as source and destination addresses, ports, protocols and traffic attributes.Read 15 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Growth recognition
Inc. lists ElastiFlow as a 2026 Inc. 5000 honoree ranked No. 593, with 588% three-year growth.Read 15 Oct 2026 · inc.com
Installation
The documentation provides a virtual-appliance quickstart, and the appliance guide supports VMware, KVM and Proxmox deployment.Read 15 Oct 2026 · go.elastiflow.com
Legacy licence
The archived Rob Cowart repository uses the Robert Cowart Public License, which excludes commercial use and redistribution.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com
Legal name
Crunchbase identifies the legal entity as ElastiFlow Inc.Read 15 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com
Licence
The current collector is distributed under ElastiFlow proprietary community and commercial EULAs rather than an OSI open-source licence.Read 15 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Limit: backend dependency
The same independent analysis cautions that ElastiFlow requires a supported backend such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Kafka, Splunk or Cribl Stream.Read 15 Oct 2026 · zairalabs.ai
Limit: exporter quality
The independent analysis notes that unreliable, sampled or malformed exporter data limits the quality of ElastiFlow results.Read 15 Oct 2026 · zairalabs.ai
Limit: no packet inspection
The independent analysis says ElastiFlow is flow-centric and does not provide packet-level session reconstruction or payload inspection.Read 15 Oct 2026 · zairalabs.ai
NetObserv
NetObserv provides immediate visibility, integration with open data platforms, pre-built dashboards, and machine-learning jobs.Read 1 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
News
ElastiFlow announced Eric Fischer as interim CRO and Vivien Fang as VP of Strategic Alliances on January 14, 2025.Read 15 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Open-source ecosystem
The ElastiFlow GitHub organization lists 33 repositories, including Apache-2.0 licensed Ansible, Helm, Terraform and observability projects.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com
Origin
The project was started by Rob Cowart as a GitHub project in May 2017 and combined NetFlow, IPFIX, and sFlow with the Elastic Stack.Read 1 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Performance use
Its performance and availability solution helps network operations and engineering teams detect and resolve issues across complex, distributed environments.Read 1 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Praise: unified pipeline
An independent 2026 analysis praises unified normalization and multi-backend support for reducing operational silos.Read 15 Oct 2026 · zairalabs.ai
Public extensibility
ElastiFlow’s GitHub organization publishes an Ansible collection, Helm chart, Terraform modules and other integration repositories.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com
Security certification
ElastiFlow's Trust Center lists a SOC 2 Type 2 audit report dated January 2026.Read 1 Oct 2026 · trust.elastiflow.com
Security controls
The Trust Center lists encryption in transit and at rest, access reviews, penetration testing, incident-response procedures and restricted customer-data access.Read 15 Oct 2026 · trust.elastiflow.com
Support model
Basic support is through community Slack and the forum, Premium includes 8x5 support, and Enterprise includes a dedicated 24x7 representative.Read 15 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
System requirements
The virtual-appliance guide specifies 16 CPU cores, 64 GB RAM and 2 TB disk for up to 16,000 flows per second or 5,000 sustained flows per second.Read 15 Oct 2026 · go.elastiflow.com
Troubleshooting
ElastiFlow is positioned to help locate latency, packet-loss and excessive-bandwidth causes.Read 15 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Vendor support
NetFlow, sFlow and IPFIX support is described as vendor-agnostic across multi-vendor environments.Read 15 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Virtual appliance
The virtual appliance supports VMware ESX, Proxmox, and KVM hypervisors and is intended for up to 16,000 flows per second from one location.Read 1 Oct 2026 · go.elastiflow.com

Plans and prices

Basic Free 4,000 records/s · 25 SNMP devices · 40+ dashboards · 120+ ML detections · metadata enrichment · Slack/forum support Read 15 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Enterprise Priced on request 1M+ records/s · Premium features · ElastiFlow-assisted dashboards, enrichments and training · dedicated 24x7 support representative Read 15 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com
Premium Priced on request 1M+ records/s · cloud and application enrichment · NetIntel threat feed · MITRE ATT&CK mapping · non-production license · 8x5 support Read 15 Oct 2026 · elastiflow.com

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Strong points and limits

Strong points

  • Supports NetFlow, IPFIX, and sFlow.
  • Extracts more than 6,200 flow fields.
  • Offers Docker, Linux, Ansible, and Helm deployment.
  • Basic includes 40+ dashboards and 120+ ML detections.
  • Service data is encrypted at rest and in transit.

Limits

  • Basic is limited to 4,000 records per second.
  • Basic supports up to 25 SNMP devices.

Who it suits

ElastiFlow suits network operations and engineering teams that need flow-based visibility across distributed environments. Its range of data-platform and deployment options may fit teams working with those systems.

Verdict

ElastiFlow combines flow analytics, enrichment, dashboards, and multiple deployment paths.

Where Specifiction places it

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