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OpenSearch Monitoring Tools

Quick Links Which open-source/free tools should you use for OpenSearch monitoring? Monitoring OpenSearch with open-source tools Cerebro Prometheus and Grafana Opster Management Console (OMC) So which tool should you choose? Why standard monitoring tools aren’t…

How to solve 8 common OpenSearch errors

Last updated: November 2022 Developer forums are riddled with questions about OpenSearch errors and exceptions. Although never a pleasant topic, errors and exceptions can serve as a powerful tool, illuminating deeper issues in your OpenSearch…

OpenSearch requirements in production

Last updated on: November 2022 OpenSearch, an open-source, full-text search engine, allows for massive volumes of data to be stored, searched, and analyzed rapidly in near real-time. As one of the most popular search engines,…

How to Improve OpenSearch Search Performance

Last Updated : November 2022 If you’re suffering from poor search performance, you should run Opster’s Search Log Analyzer. With Opster’s Analyzer, you can easily locate slow searches and understand what led to them adding…

Improve your OpenSearch Reindex Performance with these Tips

To easily improve your indexing and search performance, we recommend you try AutoOps for OpenSearch. AutoOps detects issues and improves OpenSearch performance by analyzing shard sizes, threadpools, memory, snapshots, disk watermarks, and more. Try it for free.

OpenSearch Shards and Replicas: Getting Started Guide

Introduction Published on : November 2022 OpenSearch enhances the power of Lucene by building a distributed system on top of it, and, in doing so, addresses the issues of scalability and fault tolerance. It also…

How to Improve your OpenSearch Indexing performance

To easily improve your indexing and search performance, we recommend you try AutoOps for OpenSearch. AutoOps detects issues and improves OpenSearch performance by analyzing shard sizes, threadpools, memory, snapshots, disk watermarks, and more. Try it for free.

How to Locate Which OpenSearch Users are Slowing Down Searches

When viewing OpenSearch searches, it’s very difficult to derive actionable insights without knowing which of your users searched for what. Assigning which searches belong to which users is a crucial step towards improving search performance…

How to Correctly Identify Slow and Heavy Searches in OpenSearch

A heavy search is a search that consumes many resources in the cluster (like memory, disk bandwidth, CPU and network) and which causes latency in OpenSearch. Heavy searches are not to be confused with a…

How to Optimize Search Performance and Eliminate Latency in OpenSearch

One of the most difficult issues to manage and resolve in OpenSearch is poor search performance and search latency. To optimize OpenSearch search performance, you need to find the heavy and slow searches in your…

How to Scale OpenSearch with Multiple Users and Tenants

Hosting too many tenants on a single OpenSearch cluster adds unnecessary load to your system. With too many shards, indices and nodes, cluster state and metadata become far larger than is optimal. Master nodes can’t…

How to Solve “Noisy Neighbor” Issues in OpenSearch

A common issue many multi-tenant OpenSearch deployments face is having a “noisy neighbor” – a certain customer interfering with the service and user experience of another customer on the same cluster. In cases like these,…

How to Ensure Data Recovery in OpenSearch

It’s always important to have more than one copy of your data, especially if you’re operating a mission-critical OpenSearch deployment. Should your cluster fall or become unavailable for any reason, it’s possible to maintain service…

How to Prevent Downtime in OpenSearch and Benefit from Active-Active Recovery

When a primary cluster falls in OpenSearch, the data recovery process is usually initiated, but it might take time to complete. This means that you’ll suffer from downtime in the system and data will not…

How to Easily Upgrade OpenSearch Versions

Upgrading versions in OpenSearch is often a very daunting task, especially when jumping major versions. Users fear downtime, data loss, configuration issues and more, all of which are legitimate risks when upgrading. One way to…

OpenSearch best practices, and mistakes you should avoid from analyzing 3,154 clusters.

Are you making the same mistakes as everyone else? OpenSearch users know just how easy it is to misstep when setting up and configuring your system, and what happens when you fail to notice issues…

How to Improve Performance When Your Cluster Is Loaded

OpenSearch users often work with one primary cluster for all operations, even if they actually require a second backup cluster. If a backup cluster exists, it will usually sit idle while the primary cluster handles…

Opster’s Quarterly Feature Spotlight – Q2-2022

As we finish up another amazing quarter of 2022, we’re happy to share some of Opster’s highlights from the last few months and a sneak peak of what’s in the the pipeline. Quarter Feature Highlight …

Launching Open-Source Operator for OpenSearch

With powerful capabilities for orchestration & management of OpenSearch clusters. The Operator is led by Opster with partners including SUSE Rancher, Maibornwolff, Logz.io, OpenSearch, and more. The OpenSearch Operator is fully open-source, licensed as Apache…

How to Improve Performance in Elasticsearch When Your Cluster Is Loaded

Elasticsearch users often work with one primary cluster for all operations, even if they actually require a second backup cluster. If a backup cluster exists, it will usually sit idle while the primary cluster handles…