Elastic completes acquisition of Deductive AI. Business Wire 24-Aug-2026 1:15 PM Acquisition advances Elastic Observability with AI-powered root cause analysis that learns and improves with every incident Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) has completed the acquisition of Deductive AI, an AI-powered investigation platform that helps engineering teams identify and resolve production issues faster. The acquisition advances Elastic's goal to set the standard for production incident investigation by bringing more AI-powered investigation and automation to Elastic Observability. As modern applications grow more distributed, interconnected and complex, engineers have more telemetry than ever, but spend too much time manually piecing together information across tools to understand what happened, why it happened, and what to do next. Deductive AI moves beyond simply summarizing alerts or suggesting where to look. Its technology is designed to take on more of the investigation itself while keeping engineers in control. "Engineering teams today are drowning in telemetry but starved for answers," said Ash Kulkarni, chief executive officer, Elastic. "We have been building AI into Elastic Observability to move teams from detection to resolution faster. Deductive AI brings a sophisticated reinforcement learning harness for root cause analysis that accelerates this work. Together with the depth of telemetry and context in Elastic, it brings us closer to fundamentally changing how production incidents are investigated." Deductive AI adds an AI SRE agent that gathers evidence, forms and tests hypotheses, and reasons across code, telemetry, and organizational knowledge to determine root cause. Its investigation engine learns which paths lead to useful evidence and successful outcomes, so every investigation can improve the next. Combined with Elastic's ability to infer meaningful entities, relationships, and significant operational events from telemetry, these capabilities will help engineering teams investigate and resolve production issues faster. "We've always believed that engineering teams deserve better than hours spent manually tracing the root cause of every incident," said Rakesh Kothari, former chief executive officer and cofounder, Deductive AI. "Joining Elastic lets us bring that conviction to a much larger audience and dramatically accelerate the development of AI-powered investigation capabilities. The opportunity ahead is unlike anything we could have built on our own." Existing Deductive AI customers will continue to receive support while integration plans are developed. Additional product roadmap details will be shared in the coming months. About Elastic Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) integrates its deep expertise in search technology with artificial intelligence to help everyone transform all of their data into answers, actions, and outcomes. The Elasticsearch Platform, which is 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. Elastic and associated marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of elasticsearch B.V. and its subsidiaries. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Elastic and Deductive AI join forces to accelerate agentic incident investigation for engineering teams. July 22, 2026 Today, Elastic announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Deductive AI, an AI-powered investigation platform that helps engineering teams identify and resolve production issues faster. As modern applications become more distributed, interconnected, and complex, teams have more telemetry than ever before and engineers are spending too much time piecing together information across tools to understand what happened, why it happened, and what to do next. Deductive AI was built to address that challenge. Deductive AI has built an AI SRE agent that connects to a customer's code, telemetry sources, and organizational knowledge to help engineering teams investigate alerts and production issues. The agent conducts root cause analysis by gathering evidence, forming and testing hypotheses, and reasoning across multiple sources of context to help teams understand what happened, why it happened, and what should happen next. Every investigation also becomes a learning opportunity, with successful investigation paths continuously refined and reused to improve future investigations. The acquisition accelerates its goal to bring more AI-powered investigation and automation to Elastic Observability. By combining Elastic's existing AI capabilities to infer meaningful entities, relationships, and significant operational events from telemetry with Deductive AI's knowledge graph and investigation engine, Elastic will help users identify root cause faster, reduce time spent on manual investigation, and resolve production issues more efficiently. Existing Deductive AI customers will continue to receive support while integration plans are developed. Elastic look forward to sharing more details about its product roadmap in the coming months. Elastic asked Rakesh Kothari, CEO and cofounder of Deductive AI, to share some words on what it means to join Elastic: "From the beginning, our goal was to help engineering teams accelerate root cause analysis and incident investigation, so they could focus on what truly drives impact: building and shipping great products. Joining Elastic allows us to bring that vision to more customers at a far greater scale and accelerate the development of AI-powered investigation capabilities. We couldn't be more excited about what's ahead." I'm delighted to welcome cofounders Rakesh and Sameer to Elastic along with the rest of the Deductive AI team, and Elastic look forward to building the future of AI-powered observability together.