Hossted Alternative
Get specialized Elasticsearch and OpenSearch expertise with AI-powered insights and proactive support from industry veterans.
Looking for a Hossted alternative that offers deep expertise in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch rather than broad coverage across hundreds of technologies? Pulse is purpose-built for teams running search and analytics workloads who need specialized support, AI-powered insights, and proactive monitoring from engineers who have lived and breathed these technologies for over 15 years.
Why Pulse Is the Better Hossted Alternative
While Hossted provides general support for 300+ open-source applications, Pulse focuses exclusively on Elasticsearch and OpenSearch. This specialization means you get deeper expertise, purpose-built tooling, and actionable recommendations specific to your search clusters. Our team, led by OpenSearch Ambassador Itamar Syn-Hershko, has optimized hundreds of thousands of clusters and brings that knowledge directly to your operations.
Optimizing Search and Analytics For Leading Brands
Specialized Expertise vs. Generic Support
Hossted covers 300+ open-source technologies, which means their support teams need to be generalists. When you have a complex Elasticsearch shard allocation issue or need to optimize OpenSearch query performance, you need specialists who understand the nuances:
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15+ years of hands-on Elasticsearch and OpenSearch experience -
Team led by OpenSearch Ambassador Itamar Syn-Hershko
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Hundreds of thousands of clusters optimized across our careers
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Deep understanding of search internals, not just surface-level operations
With Pulse, you get dedicated search infrastructure experts who understand your technology inside and out.
AI-Powered Platform
Unlike traditional support providers, Pulse combines human expertise with a novel AI-powered platform. Our AI SRE continuously monitors your clusters, performs root-cause analysis, and generates actionable recommendations before issues become outages.
This isn't just monitoring with dashboards—it's intelligent automation that understands Elasticsearch and OpenSearch patterns, predicts problems, and tells you exactly what to do. Hossted's general-purpose approach can't match this level of search-specific intelligence.
Proactive, Not Reactive
Traditional support models wait for you to report problems. Pulse takes a proactive approach—our experts actively monitor your clusters through our platform and reach out when they spot issues forming.
Daily health assessments, continuous performance analysis, and predictive alerts mean you catch problems before they impact your users. This proactive model reduces downtime, lowers operational costs, and lets your team focus on building features instead of firefighting.
Direct Access to Search Experts
When you work with Pulse, you get direct access to experienced Elasticsearch and OpenSearch engineers who can help you troubleshoot, optimize, and plan for the future. Our experts have handled everything from small clusters to enterprise-level deployments, contributing to open-source projects and speaking at conferences worldwide. You won't be routed through generic support tiers—you'll work directly with the people who know search infrastructure best.
Smart Alerts and Integrations
Pulse ensures you never miss critical events with intelligent alerting that goes beyond simple threshold monitoring. Our AI analyzes patterns specific to Elasticsearch and OpenSearch to notify you about performance drops, indexing delays, and potential failures before they escalate.
Alerts connect directly to tools your team already uses, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Datadog, and Discord. Each alert comes with context and recommended actions, so your team can respond faster and more effectively.
Purpose-Built for Search Infrastructure
Hossted is designed to support any open-source technology. Pulse is designed specifically for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch. This focus means every feature, every dashboard, and every recommendation is built with search workloads in mind. As your clusters grow and your requirements evolve, Pulse scales with you—delivering consistent expertise, optimization guidance, and support at every stage.
Get Started Today
If you're comparing Pulse as a Hossted alternative, the difference is clear: Pulse offers specialized Elasticsearch and OpenSearch expertise with an AI-powered platform that doesn't just support your clusters—it actively helps you run them better. From actionable recommendations to proactive monitoring and real human expertise, Pulse ensures your search infrastructure stays healthy, secure, and cost-efficient.