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OpenSearchCon 2022

May 09, 2022 • community

Join the OpenSearch community on September 21st in Seattle for #OpenSearchCon!

OpenSearch 2.0.0 release candidate is available and ready for testing and feedback

May 03, 2022 • releases

I am excited to share that the release candidate (RC1) for version 2.0.0 of OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards is now available for testing and validation. As a release candidate, this...

OpenSearch Partner Highlight: BYOK for B2B SaaS Operators using OpenSearch

Apr 26, 2022 • partners

We recently learnt that a number of our prospects were running their B2B SaaS platform on top of Elasticsearch. Nearly all of them asked if we also support AWS OpenSearch....

Partner Highlight: Pureinsights adds OpenSearch to its Discovery Platform

Apr 22, 2022 • partners

Pureinsights has deep expertise in the design, implementation and management of open source search projects. Our team has undertaken hundreds of projects using Solr and Elasticsearch and we have developed...

Introducing open-source Kubernetes Operator for OpenSearch

Apr 07, 2022 • technical-post

The Operator enables high-level API use, for easily running advanced OpenSearch operations on Kubernetes.

Using Different Java Runtimes with OpenSearch

Mar 28, 2022 • technical-post

OpenSearch ships with a bundled Java Development Kit (JDK) that has recently been updated to version 11 (LTS).

Getting started with Fluent Bit and OpenSearch

Mar 24, 2022 • technical

We recently announced the release of Fluent Bit 1.9, and while there are a number of new features and enhancements to its already impressive speed, scale, and efficiency, one feature...

Introducing Data Prepper 1.3.0 with New Aggregation Processor

Mar 21, 2022 • technical-post

Data Prepper is an open source data collector for trace and log data that can filter, enrich, and aggregate data for downstream analysis and visualization. Data Prepper now has more...

OpenSearch 1.3.0 is out now!

Mar 17, 2022 • releases

With this latest version of the OpenSearch distribution (OpenSearch, OpenSearch Dashboards, as well as plugins and tools) you can enjoy a number of new features and enhancements as well as...

Fine Dining for Indices

Mar 09, 2022 • intro

There are a lot of reasons you might want to fine-tune indices on an OpenSearch cluster. Every workflow has different requirements, and the default behavior of OpenSearch might not suit...

Auto Backport in OpenSearch

Mar 04, 2022 • technical-post

Backporting is a common process in OpenSearch in order to maintain release branches separate from main and to be ready for a release. This blog post talks about how the...

Update: OpenSearch Proposed 2022 Release Schedule

Feb 25, 2022 • partners

As part of thinking about releases for this year, I’ve been trying to sketch out a schedule of major and minor release dates through 2023. I wanted to share with...

Shard Indexing Backpressure in OpenSearch

Feb 17, 2022 • feature

In this post we wish to dive into the Shard Indexing Backpressure feature which got launched with OpenSearch 1.2.0 and how it can improve cluster reliability. The Indexing APIs in...

A Quick OpenSearch Primer

Feb 15, 2022 • intro

OpenSearch is an open-source project built on top of Apache Lucene, a powerful indexing and search library. Even if you’ve never heard of an indexing library before, you’re still probably...

Getting started with Fluentd and OpenSearch

Feb 10, 2022 • technical

The OpenSearch project is, a community-driven open-source search and analytics suite derived from Apache 2.0 licensed Elasticsearch 7.10.2 and Kibana 7.10.2. In order to get started with OpenSearch you will...