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Today marks a special day for our team at BigData Boutique as we proudly launch Pulse, our groundbreaking solution for proactive Elasticsearch and OpenSearch cluster management. Pulse embodies our commitment to doing Elasticsearch and OpenSearch operations right, and we can't wait to share it.

Elasticsearch Data Streams provide powerful ways to manage time series data and other types of append-only data.

In Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, caching plays a fundamental role in performance tuning.

Poor query performance in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch is likely the top complaint we see. Here is how to go about fixing it.

Should you use Elasticsearch and OpenSearch as a primary database? In this article we look into various use-cases where this is applicable, and present some gotchas you should consider, as well as scenarios in which it isn’t going to work well.

BigData Boutique joined forces with DoiT and Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a webinar on OpenSearch cost optimization, and it was a goldmine for anyone looking to tighten their OpenSearch belt.

BigData Boutique and Aiven joined forces for an OpenSearch fireside chat, packed with insights for optimizing OpenSearch clusters!

An Elasticsearch cluster with unassigned shards is not a healthy cluster. In this tip we explain why, and how to fix that situation.

A question we often get is what are good Elasticsearch alternatives. As you'd expect, it depends. In this post we'll go through some of the alternatives to Elasticsearch for various use-cases.

In this blog post, we'll review the available Elasticsearch monitoring tools, aiming to offer a comprehensive guide to help you choose the perfect tool for monitoring your OpenSearch clusters.

Learn how MyPart revolutionized song search by using vector embeddings, and how to implement efficient Vector Search with OpenSearch yourself.

Elasticsearch Slow Logs can help identify issues and highlight slow queries. In this tip we show how to enable Elasticsearch slow logs, and how to access them on several platforms including OpenSearch.

Detect, analyze and resolve the source of slowness in your Elasticsearch and OpenSearch clusters.

BigData Boutique, a global leader in data solutions consulting and optimization, proudly announces that it has attained the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Delivery designation for Amazon OpenSearch Service.

Two years after the fork from Elasticsearch and the initial release of OpenSearch, here’s our detailed and updated OpenSearch vs Elasticsearch comparison.

Dangling indexes in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch can cause issues, but mostly are a signal of data loss. Here's how to recover dangling indices, and how to avoid this situation in the first place.

How to optimize search results ranking on Elasticsearch and OpenSearch - from the very first steps to the more advanced features it offers.

Incorrect configurations can lead to the infamous Elasticsearch split-brain problem. In this post we will discuss what the “split brain” problem is and how you can avoid it in your clusters.

Shard rebalancing in Elasticsearch is the redistribution of index shards across nodes within a cluster. it sometimes requires supervision to achieve an ideal state. In this post, we will discuss what shard rebalancing is and how it can be configured.

The costs associated with Elasticsearch's n-gram tokenizer are not documented enough, and it's being widely used with severe consequences to cluster cost and performance. In this post we will go through the use-cases where it's useful, and suggest alternative, more efficient approaches.