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Ticket System User Guide

How to Open a Ticket for Opster’s Support Team In Slack In Portal How to Update a Ticket In Slack In Portal How to Escalate a Critical Production Issue New Ticket Existing Ticket How To…

How to Spin Up an OpenSearch Cluster Using Docker

Overview OpenSearch was created as a community-driven, open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana. OpenSearch includes a search engine daemon and dashboards for visualization and user interface. Opster is committed to the continuous improvement of…

How OzTam Improved their Elasticsearch Performance with Opster

About OzTam OzTAM is the official source of television audience measurement (TAM) covering Australia’s five mainland metropolitan markets and nationally for subscription television. OzTAM manages and markets television ratings data for total television viewing in…

How to Install OpenSearch on EC2 Using Terraform

OpenSearch was created as a community-driven, open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana. OpenSearch includes a search engine daemon and dashboards for visualization and user interface.   Opster is committed to the continuous improvement of…

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

Are you making the same mistakes as everyone else?  Elasticsearch 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…

Announcing Opster’s Support for Opensearch

Opster is proud to announce that it is supporting OpenSearch as part of our continued mission to provide the best products and services available. Our community tools and products now support OpenSearch, as well as…

Self-Hosted Elasticsearch or Managed? Where to Manage your Elasticsearch Infrastructure

What you need to know when choosing where to host Elasticsearch When using Elasticsearch, you’re faced with different hosting options. There are many elements to consider when choosing where the host Elasticsearch, whether you’re just…

Search Gateway Configuration

This is the configuration of Opster’s Search Gateway. Here you’ll be able to see an example of the configuration that will be customized to each individual user and explanations of the different terms and parameters. …

Multi-Cluster Load Balancer Configuration

This is the configuration of the Multi-Cluster Load Balancer. Here you’ll be able to see an example of the configuration that will be customized to each individual user and explanations of the different terms and…

How EveryMundo Improved Elasticsearch Performance and Optimized Resources with Opster

About EveryMundo EveryMundo provides Offer Marketing Software to drive direct channel growth and customer acquisition for major travel companies worldwide. The company works with over 60 airlines worldwide ranging from major full-service carriers to LCCs,…

How to Easily Upgrade Elasticsearch Versions

Upgrading versions in Elasticsearch 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…

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…

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

When a primary cluster falls in Elasticsearch, 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 Ensure Data Recovery in Elasticsearch

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

How to Solve “Noisy Neighbor” Issues in Elasticsearch

A common issue many multi-tenant Elasticsearch 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 Scale Elasticsearch with Multiple Users and Tenants

Hosting too many tenants on a single Elasticsearch 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 Optimize Search Performance and Eliminate Latency in Elasticsearch

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

How to Correctly Identify Slow and Heavy Searches in Elasticsearch

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 Elasticsearch. Heavy searches are not to be confused with a…

How to Locate Which Elasticsearch Users are Slowing Down Searches

When viewing Elasticsearch 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 Find Searches that are Slowing Down your Elasticsearch Cluster

It can be very difficult to understand what is going with your searches in Elasticsearch. Without visibility, you can’t get a clear picture of what is happening in your system, which searches are slowing it…