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OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards
Version 2.16
This section contains documentation for OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards.
Getting started
To get started, explore the following documentation:
Why use OpenSearch?
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| 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 performance issues. | Centralize logs to enable real-time security monitoring and forensic analysis. | Use observability logs, metrics, and traces to monitor your applications in real time. |
Key features
OpenSearch provides several features to help index, secure, monitor, and analyze your data:
- Anomaly detection – Identify atypical data and receive automatic notifications.
- SQL – Use SQL or a Piped Processing Language (PPL) to query your data.
- Index State Management – Automate index operations.
- Search methods – From traditional lexical search to advanced vector and hybrid search, discover the optimal search method for your use case.
- Machine learning – Integrate machine learning models into your workloads.
- Workflow automation – Automate complex OpenSearch setup and preprocessing tasks.
- Performance evaluation – Monitor and optimize your cluster.
- Asynchronous search – Run search requests in the background.
- Cross-cluster replication – Replicate your data across multiple OpenSearch clusters.
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. To get started, see Getting started with OpenSearch security.
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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.