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Well, look at this. I just had to stop my morning doomscrolling to read this little gem. My sincerest, most heartfelt congratulations to the team. Seeing Elastic recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ just warms the soul. It truly does.

"Visionary" is the perfect word, isn't it? It captures that special feeling of looking at a roadmap slide, gleaming with synergistic, AI-powered, paradigm-shifting features for Q4, while knowing the underlying architecture is a Jenga tower held together by a single, overworked SRE and a prayer. The vision is always so beautiful from 30,000 feet. It’s a shame the customers have to use it down on the ground, where the plumbing makes… interesting noises.

I have fond memories of the "Gartner Demo Prep" seasons. Those were special times. A real all-hands-on-deck experience. You know, the kind where VPs start using phrases like "it just has to work for the demo" and the entire engineering department quietly cancels their holidays to stitch together a feature that can survive a 45-minute Webex without catching fire. I'm so, so proud to see that heroic effort resulted in such a prestigious placement. I'm sure the product they showed Gartner is the exact same one customers are using today. No doubt about it.

It's the "ability to execute" axis that always makes me chuckle. But being a Visionary means you don't have to worry about that boring stuff just yet! It's about the dream! And what a dream it is. A dream that includes:

• A single pane of glass so powerful it can sometimes show you data from last Tuesday.
• Blazing-fast query speeds, provided you know the secret handshake and don't try to search for anything more than 24 hours old.
• That famously "simple" data ingestion pipeline that only requires a small team of consultants and a blood sacrifice to configure.

Honestly, this is a marketing triumph. It’s like building a gorgeous movie set of a spaceship bridge. The lights blink, the captain's chair is real Corinthian leather, and it looks incredible on camera. Just... don't ask to see the engine room. Or the life support. Or question why half the original crew suddenly decided to "pursue other opportunities" after the last major release.

Elastic recognized as a Visionary...

You absolutely were. I remember the vision. I also remember the panicked 2 a.m. Slack messages trying to keep that vision from dissolving into a 500 error.

Genuinely, congratulations on the big win. It's a testament to… something. I won't be reading any more of these announcements, but you kids have fun storming the castle. I'll be watching from a safe distance. With popcorn.