Core features and use cases

STACKIT OpenSearch is a fully managed, scalable and secure search and analytics service. It provides developers and data teams with a powerful tool for indexing, searching and visualizing data in real time.

Core Features

STACKIT OpenSearch provides an enterprise-ready, flexible and reliable environment for search and analytics workloads.

Easy accessibility: Deploy OpenSearch instances within Cloud Foundry or access them externally via public IPs. Combine your service seamlessly with Kubernetes workloads or Virtual Machines for flexible architecture integration.

Security and isolation: Each instance runs on dedicated virtual machines, ensuring performance and tenant isolation. Instance-level authentication and Access Control Lists (ACLs) protect data and control network access.

Scalable service plans: Choose from t-shirt-sized service plans based on your workload needs. When you reach a plan’s resource limit, simply upgrade to a larger size—no migration required.

Custom plugin support: Extend OpenSearch functionality with custom plugins such as analysis-phonetic. Default plugins are pre-enabled and cannot be disabled.
For details on enabling custom plugins, see the Plugin configuration guide.

Service Dashboard: Manage your OpenSearch services through an intuitive web dashboard. Use it to trigger backups, restore data, restart instances, or recreate services.

Data access and provisioning: Book and manage OpenSearch services directly via the STACKIT Portal App or the Cloud Foundry UI/CLI.
Once deployed, services are reachable over the Internet, with optional ACLs to restrict access.

Backup and recovery: Automatic full backups run every 4 hours and are retained for 14 days. You can manually trigger additional backups or restore specific snapshots directly in the dashboard.

Monitoring and observability options: Integrate OpenSearch metrics and logs into your existing monitoring stack.

Automatic protection with Parachute: The Parachute mechanism ensures safe shutdown when disk usage exceeds a configurable threshold (80% by default) to prevent data loss.

Use cases

STACKIT OpenSearch is designed for search, analytics and observability use cases that require fast indexing and querying of large data volumes.

Application search: Power full-text search across products, content, or documents with sub-second response times.

Log and event analytics: Ingest and analyze logs, metrics and traces from your applications and infrastructure for real-time insights.

Monitoring and observability: Combine OpenSearch with dashboards and visualizations (such as OpenSearch Dashboards) to monitor system performance and detect anomalies.

Security analytics: Collect and correlate security event data to identify threats and track incidents across your environment.

Business intelligence and data exploration: Perform interactive analytics on semi-structured or time-series data to support data-driven decisions.