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Automating the release process for standalone components in OpenSearch: Addressing challenges and implementing solutions

Sep 12, 2023 • releases, community

The OpenSearch Project is growing quickly and currently has around 600+ contributors who actively participate in the project day to day. The project releases the OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards distributions...

Monitoring your cluster with cluster metrics monitors

Sep 07, 2023 • technical-posts

In OpenSearch version 1.3, we added cluster metrics monitors to the Alerting plugin. Cluster metrics monitors allow you to execute popular CAT and cluster API calls against the local cluster...

OpenSearch Dashboards: A usability snapshot

Sep 06, 2023 • community

Creating visual representations from large amounts of data aligns with the fundamental mode of human understanding. To monitor data at scale and make strategic decisions, we need tools that can...

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Sep 05, 2023 • announcements

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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...