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Category: Amazon OpenSearch Service

Microservice observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service part 2: Create an operational panel and incident report

In the first post in our series , we discussed setting up a microservice observability architecture and application troubleshooting steps using log and trace correlation with Amazon OpenSearch Service. In this post, we discuss using PPL to create visualizations in operational panels, and creating a simple incident report using notebooks. To try out the solution […]

Microservice observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service part 1: Trace and log correlation

Modern enterprises are increasingly adopting microservice architectures and moving away from monolithic structures. Although microservices provide agility in development and scalability, and encourage use of polyglot systems, they also add complexity. Troubleshooting distributed services is hard because the application behavioral data is distributed across multiple machines. Therefore, in order to have deep insights to troubleshoot […]

Ensure availability of your data using cross-cluster replication with Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that you can use to deploy and operate OpenSearch and legacy Elasticsearch clusters, cost-effectively, at scale in the AWS Cloud. The service makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more by offering the latest versions of OpenSearch, support […]

Choose the k-NN algorithm for your billion-scale use case with OpenSearch

April 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy. February 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy of the code. When organizations set out to build machine learning (ML) applications such as natural language processing (NLP) systems, recommendation engines, or search-based systems, often times k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) search will be used at some point […]

Stream Amazon EMR on EKS logs to third-party providers like Splunk, Amazon OpenSearch Service, or other log aggregators

Spark jobs running on Amazon EMR on EKS generate logs that are very useful in identifying issues with Spark processes and also as a way to see Spark outputs. You can access these logs from a variety of sources. On the Amazon EMR virtual cluster console, you can access logs from the Spark History UI. […]

How Plugsurfing doubled performance and reduced cost by 70% with purpose-built databases and AWS Graviton

Plugsurfing aligns the entire car charging ecosystem—drivers, charging point operators, and carmakers—within a single platform. The over 1 million drivers connected to the Plugsurfing Power Platform benefit from a network of over 300,000 charging points across Europe. Plugsurfing serves charging point operators with a backend cloud software for managing everything from country-specific regulations to providing […]

Custom packages and hot reload of dictionary files with Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that you can use to deploy and operate OpenSearch clusters cost-effectively at scale in the AWS Cloud. The service makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more by offering the latest versions of OpenSearch, support for 19 versions […]

Understanding the JVMMemoryPressure metric changes in Amazon OpenSearch Service

This blog post was last reviewed and updated September 2022 with OldGenJVMMemoryPressure, MasterOldGenJVMMemoryPressure and WarmOldGenJVMMemoryPressure metrics to trace usage of old gen.  Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to secure, deploy, and operate OpenSearch and legacy Elasticsearch clusters at scale. In the latest service software release of Amazon OpenSearch Service, […]

Improved performance with AWS Graviton2 instances on Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service at AWS for OpenSearch. It’s an open-source search and analytics suite used for a broad set of use cases, like real-time application monitoring, log analytics, and website search. While running an OpenSearch Service domain, you can choose from a variety of instances for your primary nodes and […]

Enhance resiliency with admission control in Amazon OpenSearch Service

OpenSearch is a distributed, open-source search and analytics suite used for a broad set of use cases like real-time application monitoring, log analytics, and website search. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to secure, deploy, and operate OpenSearch clusters at scale. Amazon OpenSearch Service provides a broad range of cluster […]