OpenSearch documentation

OpenSearch documentation

This site contains the technical documentation for OpenSearch, the Apache 2.0-licensed search, analytics, and visualization suite with advanced security, alerting, SQL support, automated index management, deep performance analysis, and more.

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Why use OpenSearch?

OpenSearch is well-suited to the following use cases:

Log analytics
Real-time application monitoring
Clickstream analytics
Search backend

Component	Purpose
OpenSearch	Data store and search engine
OpenSearch Dashboards	Search frontend and visualizations
Security	Authentication and access control for your cluster
Alerting	Receive notifications when your data meets certain conditions
SQL	Use SQL or a piped processing language to query your data
Index State Management	Automate index operations
KNN	Find “nearest neighbors” in your vector data
Performance Analyzer	Monitor and optimize your cluster
Anomaly detection	Identify atypical data and receive automatic notifications
Asynchronous search	Run search requests in the background
Cross-cluster replication	Replicate your data across multiple OpenSearch clusters

Most OpenSearch plugins have corresponding OpenSearch Dashboards plugins that provide a convenient, unified user interface.

For specifics around the project, see the FAQ.

Docker quickstart

Docker

Install and start Docker Desktop.

Run the following commands:

docker pull opensearchproject/opensearch:1.2.0
docker run -p 9200:9200 -p 9600:9600 -e "discovery.type=single-node" opensearchproject/opensearch:1.2.0

In a new terminal session, run:

curl -XGET --insecure -u 'admin:admin' 'https://localhost:9200'

Create your first index.

curl -XPUT --insecure -u 'admin:admin' 'https://localhost:9200/my-first-index'

Add some data to your newly created index.

curl -XPUT --insecure -u 'admin:admin' 'https://localhost:9200/my-first-index/_doc/1' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"Description": "To be or not to be, that is the question."}'

Retrieve the data to see that it was added properly.

curl -XGET --insecure -u 'admin:admin' 'https://localhost:9200/my-first-index/_doc/1'

After verifying that the data is correct, delete the document.

curl -XDELETE --insecure -u 'admin:admin' 'https://localhost:9200/my-first-index/_doc/1'

Finally, delete the index.

curl -XDELETE --insecure -u 'admin:admin' 'https://localhost:9200/my-first-index/'

To learn more, see Docker image and Docker security configuration.

Installation

For more comprehensive installation instructions for other download types, such as tarballs, see these pages:

The secure path forward

OpenSearch includes a demo configuration so that you can get up and running quickly, but before using OpenSearch in a production environment, you must configure the security plugin manually: your own certificates, your own authentication method, your own users, and your own passwords.

Looking for the Javadoc?

See opensearch.org/javadocs/.

Get involved

OpenSearch is supported by Amazon Web Services. All components are available under the Apache License, Version 2.0 on GitHub.

The project welcomes GitHub issues, bug fixes, features, plugins, documentation—anything at all. To get involved, see Contributing on the OpenSearch website.