Overview
OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and Kibana. It provides full-text search, aggregation capabilities, alerting, and visualization features for building log analytics, monitoring, and enterprise search solutions.
Key features
- Distributed search and indexing: strong horizontal scalability for large datasets and high-concurrency queries.
- Dashboards and visualization: built-in dashboards and visualization tools for real-time analysis.
- Plugin ecosystem: supports plugins to extend search, analytics, and security features.
Use cases
- Log analytics and monitoring: replace ELK stack for log storage and query analysis.
- Enterprise search: site search, product search, and document retrieval scenarios.
- Data exploration and alerting: real-time alerting and metric analysis.
Technical details
- Implemented in Java, compatible with Lucene index formats, supports RESTful APIs and SQL query interfaces. Active community contributions and official deployment guides are available.