OpenSearch

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Basics

Understand the basic architecture of OpenSearch, learn about key features and how to use the database effectively.

Getting started

Create your first OpenSearch instance. Follow the guides to build a working setup and connect in minutes.

How-tos

Manage instances, users, and backups. Connect with various tools such as Cloud Foundry and Terraform.

Reference

Find API documentation, CLI commands, performance metrics and an overview of project roles and permissions.

Troubleshooting

Resolve common issues to keep your OpenSearch deployment running and steadily.

FAQ

Quickly find answers to frequently asked questions about OpenSearch.

Release notes

Discover what's new in OpenSearch, including added features, bug fixes and deprication notices.

Features

• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• 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.

Latest updates

• announcement

  STACKIT OpenSearch2 is now available

  May 15, 2023

  We are happy to announce our new service releases for STACKIT OpenSearch2 The Service are offered with completely new Service Plans. You can find more information about our life cycle here.

  The following versions will soon reach the end of support period and will be obsolete on the November 31, 2023: STACKIT Elasticsearch (all versions) Plan to update to the new product. In our Knowledge Base you will find tutorials to help you migrate the data to the new services. Please feel free to contact our Help Center if you need any assistance.

OpenSearch Release notes