Managed services have several benefits and are great for small scale or non-mission critical use cases. However, support is limited and you’re often left to solve issues and optimize performance on your own.

Working with Opster will afford you the same benefits you would get with a managed service. Beyond that, Opster’s platform optimizes performance and automates operations, while the included proactive maintenance and our professional services both serve to prevent issues and ensure smooth Elasticsearch operation.

No. An Opster subscription provides everything you need to run Elasticsearch smoothly.

It does provide advanced ES monitoring but its strength is its ability to detect, prevent and resolve Elasticsearch issues. Opster Essentials platform can take action on your cluster to handle issues or provide actionable instructions to resolve them. 

An Essentials packages includes professional services, support and proactive maintenance by our elite ES experts to ensure peak performance in Elasticsearch. Read more.

No, Opster’s Elasticsearch platform and our support team allow you to operate ES self-hosted while enabling you to ensure smooth and optimized operations. Opster can also be used in addition to AWS or Elastic managed services.

Opster is perfect for those who are self-hosting their Elasticsearch and want an end-to-end solution for ES that constantly optimizes performance, prevents issues, and elite support personnel at their service.

With the Opster platform, you’ll optimize search performance, guarantee high availability, automate maintenance and ensure peak performance in Elasticsearch, both for on-prem and cloud deployments.

We believe in “buy what you need”. The price quote depends on which Opster solution you’re interested in and the size of your system.

As a general ballpark, an Essentials subscription that includes the Essentials platform, 24/7 production support, and a bank of hours for professional services will cost on an annual contract for a 64 GB RAM node $140 per month per node and is subject to minimum deal size.

Contact us to get your price quote.

All of them! We also assist with version upgrades using our Multi-Cluster Load Balancer. Unlike managed services, we won’t tell you that an upgrade solves everything – we’ll solve every issue case by case, and upgrade when it’s truly needed.

You can read what services are included in our support and professional services here.

We know how frustrating it can be waiting for a response from low tier support! so we just don’t bother with tier support – your requests via slack or intercom go straight to the top experts who have many years of experience and a vast understanding of all things Elasticsearch.

We also work with the world’s top community experts on enriching our solutions and services, you can read about them here.

Opster is aimed for those running mission-critical deployments. If you have a small installation but performance is imperative for you, Opster is definitely worth it for you. Talk to us.