Blog

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. To locate which users of yours are running searches in OpenSearch that are harming performance, first you need to…

How to Correctly Identify Slow and Heavy Searches in OpenSearch

Heavy searches have an effect on all of the OpenSearch cluster’s operations, such as increasing indexing and search latencies and API responsiveness. That is why it is so important to detect those heavy searches and prevent them from running. To do so you need to…

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

OpenSearch is generally good at scaling, but does so less well when the data involved is not homogenous. In the case of multiple users and tenants, the data is not homogenous and therefore it is far more difficult to scale efficiently. The clear solution is to…

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 OpenSearch 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 require a second backup cluster. If a backup cluster exists, it will usually sit idle while the primary cluster handles all load and often becomes overloaded. This leads to a decrease in performance. To improve…