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Backwards Compatibility Testing for OpenSearch

Nov 05, 2021 • technical-post

Backwards Compatibility (BWC) testing is used to test and determine the safe upgrade paths from a supported BWC version to the current version. The framework in OpenSearch allows you to...

Moving from open source Elasticsearch to OpenSearch

Oct 29, 2021 • technical-posts

Blog refreshed for technical accuracy on 16 Nov 2022

Partner Highlight: Eliatra presents OpenSearch Security Concepts

Oct 26, 2021 • technical-posts

Eliatra provides OpenSearch Support, Professional Services and Custom Feature Development. Our team has been working with open source search engine technology like Lucene and Elastic products since the very beginning....

Testing Automation for OpenSearch Releases

Oct 22, 2021 • technical-post

OpenSearch releases many distributions across multiple platforms as part of a new version. These distributions are of two types - the default distribution that includes all plugins, and the min...

Introduction to OpenSearch Alerting

Oct 20, 2021 • partners

Log analytics has grown to be one of OpenSearch’s popular use cases as it is able to easily ingest, secure, search, visualize, and analyze log data. The automated alerting feature...

Partner Highlight: Aiven offers OpenSearch as a service

Oct 14, 2021 • partners

Aiven has recently announced Aiven for OpenSearch as the newest addition to their managed database services platform. As an existing provider of open source Elasticsearch as a service, the move...

Introduction to Cross-Cluster Replication

Oct 12, 2021 • cross-cluster

Earlier this year while working on Open Distro the team announced the experimental release of cross-cluster replication. I am happy to announce the general availability of cross-cluster replication for OpenSearch....

OpenSearch 1.1.0 is here!

Oct 05, 2021 • releases

We are excited to announce the 1.1.0 release of OpenSearch, OpenSearch Dashboards, and the OpenSearch Project plugins (available to download today).

Building OpenSearch 1.1 Distributions using Automation

Oct 04, 2021 • technical-post

The Open Distro for Elasticsearch was a package containing open source Elasticsearch and a dozen open source plugins. Open Distro’s release process began by picking up a stable version of...

OpenSearch clients in Python, Go, and Node.js

Sep 30, 2021 • community

Last month, the project announced the intention to release OpenSearch specific clients and today the first batch are ready for production use. You can get opensearch-py from PyPI, install opensearch-js...

Data Prepper roadmap is now publicly available on GitHub

Sep 16, 2021 • releases

This blog has been updated for technical accuracy on 17 Nov 2022.

A query, or There and Back Again

Sep 02, 2021 • community

OpenSearch is a distributed, open source search and analytics suite used for a broad set of use cases like real-time application monitoring, log analytics, and website search. And it’s easy...

OpenSearch Versioning, or What is SemVer anyway?

Aug 27, 2021 • technical-post

I think people often use Semantic Versioning (a.k.a SemVer) intuitively even if they don’t know the term. So, let’s take a look at what SemVer is and what it means...

OpenSearch Partner Highlight: How Titaniam Arcus can further secure your OpenSearch Deployment

Aug 24, 2021 • partners

Over the past few years there have been numerous security breaches reported in the news. These types of incidents are top of mind as people want to ensure the software...

Carrying forward the OpenSearch client libraries as a community

Aug 11, 2021 • community

Note: This post was updated in Dec 2021 to reflect the current status of the new clients.