Confluent and Elastic are partnering to make it easier to integrate Apache Kafka and Elasticsearch, eliminating the need to manage Kafka Connect clusters and reducing operational burdens. This partnership enables organizations to deliver optimized search, real-time analytics, and data-driven applications, and has already helped customers protect their environments from evolving threats in real time. The partnership is expanding Confluent's capabilities to tackle use cases such as log analysis, full-text search, and preemptive threat mitigation, and is a key part of Confluent's strategy to help companies put their data in motion.