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Announcing Data Prepper 2.4.0

Aug 28, 2023 • releases

Data Prepper 2.4.0 is now available for download. This release introduces a number of exciting new features, including a new Apache Kafka source, Amazon S3 batch processing, filtering inside of...

Partner Highlight: Build production-ready generative AI applications for enterprise search using Haystack pipelines and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart with LLMs

Aug 25, 2023 • partner-highlight

Here we will show how to build an end-to-end generative AI application for enterprise search with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) using Haystack, OpenSearch, and Sagemaker JumpStart.

OpenSearchCon 2023 speakers, sessions, and more

Aug 22, 2023 • events

Last year’s first-ever OpenSearchCon was a smashing success (you can find videos of the talks here if you’re interested).

New custom automated style workflow

Aug 08, 2023 • community-updates

The OpenSearch Project is pleased to announce the rollout of an exciting mechanism in the documentation-website and project-website repos. We have implemented a custom automated style workflow to ensure that...

Using community insights to create a persona framework to improve search experiences

Aug 04, 2023 • community

As the OpenSearch Project began user experience (UX) research, clarifying the persona framework was essential. Using a goals-based approach, we defined the search user, user flows, and user dependencies. In...

Overlaying anomalies and alerts on OpenSearch Dashboards visualizations

Aug 02, 2023 • technical-posts

We have some exciting news to share with you!

Partner Highlight: AWS releases Amazon Personalize Search Ranking for self-managed OpenSearch

Jul 27, 2023 • partner-highlight

OpenSearch partner and contributor AWS recently released Amazon Personalize Search Ranking, a new plugin for self-managed OpenSearch that helps users leverage the deep learning capabilities offered by Amazon Personalize and...

Introducing extensions for OpenSearch

Jul 25, 2023 • technical-posts

Extensions is a new experimental feature in OpenSearch 2.9 that allows you to extend OpenSearch and independently scale workloads without impacting cluster availability. In this blog post, we will introduce...

Introducing OpenSearch 2.9.0

Jul 24, 2023 • releases

OpenSearch 2.9.0 is ready to download, with new features designed to help you build better search solutions and integrate more machine learning (ML) into your applications, along with updates for...

New for OpenSearch Dashboards: Long-running operation notifications and component templates

Jul 20, 2023 • technical-post

OpenSearch Dashboards now provides two additional UI elements to simplify index management---notifications for long-running operations and component templates. With long-running operation notification, you can subscribe to be notified of a...

Correlating security events across different log sources

Jul 13, 2023 • technical-posts

All enterprises, large and small, across different industries and geographies, are vulnerable to security threats to their valuable data. To detect and respond to these threats, organizations use commercial security...

Optimize OpenSearch index shard sizes

Jul 06, 2023 • technical-posts

This blog post discusses optimizing the number shards in an OpenSearch index. Optimizing shard sizes helps you get the best performance from OpenSearch.

Improving JSON parsing performance in opensearch-java

Jun 27, 2023 • technical-post

As an open-source enthusiast, I believe in the power of collaboration to make open-source projects faster and more efficient. In this blog post, I will share how my team at...

Partner highlight: Exploring OpenSearch’s vector database capabilities

Jun 26, 2023 • partner-highlight

Many organizations are turning to machine learning (ML) tools to enhance their search applications. Among those tools are ML embedding models, which can encode the meaning and context of documents,...

End-to-end acknowledgments in Data Prepper

Jun 19, 2023 • technical-post

Data Prepper is an open-source data collector used to ingest data into OpenSearch clusters. In addition to Data Prepper’s in-memory buffer, which allows for fast throughput, users also want improved...