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Get Started with OpenSearch 2.7.0

May 02, 2023 • releases

OpenSearch 2.7.0 is ready for download! The latest version of OpenSearch offers a range of new capabilities for search, analytics, observability, and security applications, along with significant enhancements to administration...

Announcing Data Prepper 2.2.0

Apr 19, 2023 • releases

Data Prepper 2.2.0 is now available for download! This release introduces a number of changes that help with Data Prepper’s reliability and data delivery assurances.

OpenSearch Project Newsletter - Volume 1, Issue 3

Apr 10, 2023 • community

The OpenSearch Project is pleased to present our newsletter. Distributed monthly, the newsletter is a great way to learn more about the latest OpenSearch news, relevant content from the community,...

You can now see ML model status in OpenSearch Dashboards

Apr 10, 2023 • technical-post

Before OpenSearch 2.6, checking the status of a deployed machine learning (ML) model in OpenSearch could only be done by using the ML Commons Profile API. Although the Profile API...

Technical roadmap: OpenSearch extensibility

Apr 05, 2023 • technical-post

The OpenSearch plugin framework presents a number of challenges for users and developers. To solve these, we've embarked on a journey to replace the plugin mechanism with extensions.

Meet your new OpenSearch Project Slack workspace

Apr 03, 2023 • community

The OpenSearch Project is happy to announce a new Slack community workspace to provide open communication channels for anyone interested in OpenSearch.

The ABCs of semantic search in OpenSearch: Architectures, benchmarks, and combination strategies

Mar 30, 2023 • technical-post

In an earlier blog post, we described different ways of building a semantic search engine in OpenSearch. In this post, we'll dive further into the science behind it. We'll discuss...

Expanding k-NN with Lucene approximate nearest neighbor search

Mar 22, 2023 • technical-post

OpenSearch pioneered k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) within search engines in 2019, and developers have adopted it enthusiastically on sets of millions or even billions of vectors. OpenSearch continues to innovate in...

Getting started with multilayer maps in OpenSearch

Mar 15, 2023 • technical-post

OpenSearch 2.5 introduced new multilayer maps for visualizing geographical data. Displaying multiple layers on a map lets you show data from different sources at different zoom levels. Additionally, in OpenSearch...

OpenSearch Project Newsletter - Volume 1, Issue 2

Mar 13, 2023 • community

The OpenSearch Project is pleased to present our newsletter. Distributed monthly, the newsletter is a great way to learn more about the latest OpenSearch news, relevant content from the community,...

OpenSearch Project Q1 community survey results

Mar 12, 2023 • community

Thank you to the OpenSearch community members who responded to our Q1 community survey! Our first quarterly survey focused on understanding who our users are, what they use OpenSearch for,...

Simple NGINX dashboards with Fluent Bit and OpenSearch

Mar 06, 2023 • technical-post

Fluent Bit is a graduated sub-project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Fluentd project umbrella. Fluent Bit integrates with hundreds of common tools such as Kafka, Syslog, Loki, and,...

Index Management UI enhancements

Mar 03, 2023 • technical-post

OpenSearch now provides a new interface you can use to execute common indexing and data stream operations. You can now perform create, read, update, delete (CRUD) and mapping operations for...

Announcing Data Prepper 2.1.0

Mar 02, 2023 • releases

Data Prepper 2.1.0 is now available for download! This release adds several new features to Data Prepper. Additionally, the maintainers have improved Data Prepper’s stability and performance. Many of the...

Introducing OpenSearch 2.6

Feb 28, 2023 • releases

OpenSearch 2.6.0 is now available, with a new data schema built to OpenTelemetry standards that unlocks an array of future capabilities for analytics and observability use cases. This release also...