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OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards

Version 2.12

This section contains documentation for OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards.

Getting started

Why use OpenSearch?

With OpenSearch, you can perform the following use cases:

Fast, scalable full-text search Application and infrastructure monitoring Security and event information management Operational health tracking
Fast, Scalable Full-text Search Application and Infrastructure Monitoring Security and Event Information Management Operational Health Tracking
Help users find the right information within your application, website, or data lake catalog. Easily store and analyze log data, and set automated alerts for underperformance. Centralize logs to enable real-time security monitoring and forensic analysis. Use observability logs, metrics, and traces to monitor your applications and business in real time.

Additional features and plugins:

OpenSearch has several features and plugins to help index, secure, monitor, and analyze your data. Most OpenSearch plugins have corresponding OpenSearch Dashboards plugins that provide a convenient, unified user interface.

The secure path forward

OpenSearch includes a demo configuration so that you can get up and running quickly, but before using OpenSearch in a production environment, you must configure the Security plugin manually with your own certificates, authentication method, users, and passwords.

Looking for the Javadoc?

See opensearch.org/javadocs/.

Get involved

OpenSearch is supported by Amazon Web Services. All components are available under the Apache License, Version 2.0 on GitHub. The project welcomes GitHub issues, bug fixes, features, plugins, documentation—anything at all. To get involved, see Contributing on the OpenSearch website.


OpenSearch includes certain Apache-licensed Elasticsearch code from Elasticsearch B.V. and other source code. Elasticsearch B.V. is not the source of that other source code. ELASTICSEARCH is a registered trademark of Elasticsearch B.V.

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