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OpenSearch 1.1.0 is here!

Oct 05, 2021 • releases

We are excited to announce the 1.1.0 release of OpenSearch, OpenSearch Dashboards, and the OpenSearch Project plugins (available to download today).

Building OpenSearch 1.1 Distributions using Automation

Oct 04, 2021 • technical-post

The Open Distro for Elasticsearch was a package containing open source Elasticsearch and a dozen open source plugins. Open Distro’s release process began by picking up a stable version of...

OpenSearch clients in Python, Go, and Node.js

Sep 30, 2021 • community

Last month, the project announced the intention to release OpenSearch specific clients and today the first batch are ready for production use. You can get opensearch-py from PyPI, install opensearch-js...

Data Prepper roadmap is now publicly available on GitHub

Sep 16, 2021 • releases

This blog has been updated for technical accuracy on 17 Nov 2022.

A query, or There and Back Again

Sep 02, 2021 • community

OpenSearch is a distributed, open source search and analytics suite used for a broad set of use cases like real-time application monitoring, log analytics, and website search. And it’s easy...

OpenSearch Versioning, or What is SemVer anyway?

Aug 27, 2021 • technical-post

I think people often use Semantic Versioning (a.k.a SemVer) intuitively even if they don’t know the term. So, let’s take a look at what SemVer is and what it means...

OpenSearch Partner Highlight: How Titaniam Arcus can further secure your OpenSearch Deployment

Aug 24, 2021 • partners

Over the past few years there have been numerous security breaches reported in the news. These types of incidents are top of mind as people want to ensure the software...

Carrying forward the OpenSearch client libraries as a community

Aug 11, 2021 • community

Note: This post was updated in Dec 2021 to reflect the current status of the new clients.

Streaming Analytics in OpenSearch

Aug 02, 2021 • feature

This post introduces an updated Random Cut Forest library, RCF 2.0. OpenSearch uses RCF 1.0 in its existing High Cardinality Anomaly Detection (HCAD) framework [1,2,3]. The sequel discusses the perspective...

Feature Deep Dive: OpenSearch Dashboards Notebooks

Jul 26, 2021 • feature

OpenSearch Dashboards Notebooks lets you easily combine live visualizations, narrative text, and SQL and Piped Processing Language (PPL) queries so that you can tell your data’s story. You can interactively...

1.0 is released!

Jul 12, 2021 • updates

Today is a really good day for the OpenSearch project. Since its start, the goal has been to quickly produce a version of OpenSearch that’s ready to use in production...

How To: Upgrade from Open Distro to OpenSearch

Jul 08, 2021 • technical-posts

As general availability for OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards is fast approaching, we wanted to provide some guidance on upgrading Open Distro for Elasticsearch (Open Distro) 1.13 to OpenSearch 1.0, along...

Introducing the community projects page

Jun 30, 2021 • community

Many open source projects benefit from the ecosystem of software created on top of or for the project. As an example, the Node Package Manager (NPM) makes JavaScript more approachable....

OpenSearch Reporting 101

Jun 29, 2021 • feature

The OpenSearch Reporting feature helps users generate reports from Dashboards, Visualizations, and the Discover panel and export them to PDF, PNG, and CSV file formats to easily share. In this...

How do you plan on getting data into OpenSearch?

Jun 21, 2021 • community

I expect very few people will only use OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards. Sure, you might do a little testing with the sample data in OpenSearch Dashboards, but really you’re going...