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Elastic

elastic.co · Technology · ESTC

Ranked 237 of 2,047 companies in the study

42Overall score
  • Visibility28
  • Citations2
  • Sentiment79
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness29
What this means for Elastic

AI assistants name Elastic in 25% of their answers, which is more often than the typical company in its sector at 10%. Elastic has an overall score of 42 out of 100, ranking 237th of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 4 out of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the technology market: none named Elastic. AI assistants named it in 15 of 60 answers (25.0%). The typical technology company is named in 10.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Elastic ranks 59 of 273 in its sector.

Named by AI in
25.0%
15 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
32.6%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
4/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
44 of 273
by overall score, where the typical technology company scores 36
How Elastic compares with all 2,047 companies

Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.

This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
28

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
2

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
79

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
87

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
29

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Compared with technology

273 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score42
Ranks 44 of 273. Typical company: 36
Named in answers25%
Ranks 59 of 273. Typical company: 10%
AI readiness29
Ranks 82 of 273. Typical company: 29
What Perplexity actually said

An answer that names the company

“How do you resolve slow query performance in enterprise search applications?”

Slow query performance in enterprise search is usually fixed by finding the bottleneck first, then tuning query structure, indexing, and infrastructure. Practical guidance from Splunk and Elasticsearch docs points to four main levers: reduce work per query, search less data, optimize index/query design, and scale or monitor the system appropriately.

Profile the slow query before changing anything. Re-run the query, inspect job timing, and, if available, use performance traces or job inspectors to see whether the time is spent in parsing, field extra …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Also named
Splunk15Datadog11New Relic5Sumo Logic4
Share of mentions

How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals

Elastic
36.6%
Splunk
24.4%
Datadog
22.0%
New Relic
9.8%
Sumo Logic
7.3%
SolarWinds
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
5/15
Perplexity
5/15
OpenAI
3/15
Claude
2/15
Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 86.8%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 0.3%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 93.4%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 1.4%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 10.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.0%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 0.2%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 33.7%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.elastic.co · 2,047 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

The checks behind the AI readiness score

4 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.

These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • PassedMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
  • Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.

Training AI
  • GPTBotallowed
  • ClaudeBotallowed
  • Anthropic-AIallowed
  • Google-Extendedallowed
  • Applebot-Extendedallowed
  • Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
  • FacebookBotallowed
  • Bytespiderallowed
  • CCBotallowed
  • Diffbotallowed
  • Omgilibotallowed
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotallowed
  • Claude-SearchBotallowed
  • PerplexityBotallowed
  • Applebotallowed
  • Amazonbotallowed
  • YouBotallowed
Answering questions
  • ChatGPT-Userallowed
  • Claude-Userallowed
  • Perplexity-Userallowed
  • DuckAssistBotallowed
  • MistralAI-Userallowed

Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

elastic.co (its own website)
13
ibm.com
13
sentinelone.com
10
moveworks.com
9
gartner.com
9
alpha-sense.com
9
meilisearch.com
8
glean.com
8
gosearch.ai
8
help.splunk.com
7

In the study as US-listed.

Every question, and where the company came up (8 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • How do you resolve slow query performance in enterprise search applications?
  • Other approaches to implementing enterprise observability without a dedicated platform?
  • How can AI-powered search improve knowledge management for distributed teams?
  • What are the best enterprise search platforms for organizations handling large data volumes?
  • Are advanced search platforms a good fit for businesses prioritizing unified data access?
  • AI analytics platforms vs. manual reporting for operational insights—what are the main differences?
  • What are some options besides integrated AI analytics suites for business data analysis?
  • Typical pricing tiers for enterprise-grade AI analytics and search solutions
  • What factors affect the cost of AI-driven security and observability platforms?
  • Is investing in an AI-powered observability solution worth it for mid-sized enterprises?
  • How does enterprise search differ from traditional business intelligence tools?
  • Alternatives to centralized enterprise search platforms for unifying data access
  • Common problems integrating AI analytics platforms with legacy data sources
  • Best practices for implementing enterprise-wide security monitoring using observability tools
  • Top AI-powered analytics solutions for security and observability in US businesses
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.

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