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Snapshot Operations in OpenSearch

Sep 09, 2022 • technical-post

In this post, we want to dive deep into snapshot operations in OpenSearch. Snapshots are backups of a cluster’s indexes and state. The state can include cluster settings, node information,...

From the editor's desk: OpenSearch and inclusion

Aug 31, 2022 • community

As part of our commitment to providing complete and best-in-class documentation to the OpenSearch community, we want to ensure that you have visibility into how we approach creating bar-raising content....

Day in the Life of a Release Manager

Aug 25, 2022 • community

An OpenSearch version release can be a daunting prospect, especially if you’re the one managing it. There are ambiguously worded tasks that need to be completed, deadlines to be met....

OpenSearch plugin zips now in Maven repo

Aug 23, 2022 • technical-post

Starting with the release of OpenSearch 2.1.0, OpenSearch plugin zips are now signed and published to a central Apache Maven repo. Using the Release zips and Snapshot zips Maven Repo...

Agent Ingestion Usage in OpenSearch Survey Results

Aug 23, 2022 • technical-post

First, a huge thank you to all of you who responded to the survey. Understanding how you use agents in your ingestion pipelines helps us prioritize use cases that deliver...

Partner Highlight: Dattell blog post compares OpenSearch and Elasticsearch

Aug 17, 2022 • partners

OpenSearch partner and contributor Dattell has published a blog post that explores technical and business aspects of the OpenSearch project and Elasticsearch offerings. The post by Dattell co-founder Maria Hatfield,...

OpenSearch 2.2 is now available!

Aug 11, 2022 • releases

OpenSearch 2.2 is ready to download! This release includes 23 new features and 12 enhancements to help you build and optimize your solutions for search, analytics, and observability workloads. Following...

Which Way is the Compass Pointing?

Jul 22, 2022 • intro

I’m still tagging, and much like in my last post, I’ve been tagging forum threads in hopes of gaining insight into where to target content creation. What is most clear...

Aggregate by multiple terms in OpenSearch

Jul 21, 2022 • technical-post

Multi-terms aggregation allows you to group and sort results from a query. While terms aggregation has existed in OpenSearch for some time, multi-terms aggregation allows for sorting by deeper levels....

Using Fluent Bit and OpenSearch with Bottlerocket and Kubelet logs

Jul 20, 2022 • technical-post

Today, I’m going to show you how to run OpenSearch with the OpenSearch Operator on Kubernetes using the Bottlerocket and then add Fluent Bit to collect logs from the nodes...

What’s new: Document-level monitors

Jul 13, 2022 • technical-post

In OpenSearch 2.0, OpenSearch released document-level monitors. With document-level monitors, alert creators can monitor documents as they are indexed in OpenSearch. If an alert is configured on a document-level monitor,...

Year One: The OpenSearch Project

Jul 12, 2022 • community

I know its cliché, but what a difference a year makes. We launched the OpenSearch project a year ago today to help ensure that the community of open-source Elasticsearch users...

OpenSearch 2.1 is available now!

Jul 07, 2022 • releases

OpenSearch 2.1 is now available for download! This release includes new features and significant enhancements aimed at boosting performance and expanding functionality for search, analytics, and observability use cases. OpenSearch...

OpenSearch style guidelines are now available

Jun 29, 2022 • community

The OpenSearch team is excited to announce the release of the style guidelines for our documentation and marketing content! These guidelines cover the style standards and terms to be observed...

S3 log ingestion using Data Prepper 1.5.0

Jun 23, 2022 • technical-post

Data Prepper is an open-source data collector for data ingestion into OpenSearch. It currently supports trace analytics and log analysis use cases. Earlier this year Data Prepper added log ingestion...