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Customer experience outcomes of focused, user-centered product design improvements

Mar 15 • community

Software improvements often prioritize adding new features and functionality. Product managers and developers often adopt an agile approach, adding engineering capabilities in iterative steps. Neglecting seamless user experience can lead...

Announcing OpenSearchCon Europe 2024

Feb 29 • community

The OpenSearch Project invites the OpenSearch community to explore the future of search, analytics, and generative AI at the first OpenSearch user conference in Europe. Join us in Berlin on...

Enhancing security in OpenSearch 2.12.0: The end of the default admin password

Feb 27 • community-updates, technical-posts

In the landscape of data management and search technologies, OpenSearch stands out by offering a comprehensive set of features and a flexible platform for users globally. With the rollout of...

Launch highlight: The Saved Objects import feature improves information transfer for multiple data sources

Feb 22 • feature

OpenSearch Dashboards launched support for multiple data sources in OpenSearch 2.4, empowering Dashboards to retrieve data from various compatible OpenSearch endpoints. With this feature enabled, you gain the ability to...

Introducing OpenSearch 2.12

Feb 20 • releases

OpenSearch 2.12 is ready to download! This release increases performance for search and analytics applications and includes user experience enhancements and an array of upgrades to OpenSearch’s machine learning (ML)...

OpenSearch Project's 2023 wrapped: a year in review

Feb 14 • community

You did it! You have all helped the OpenSearch Project to have a phenomenal year. Let’s take a look at what we accomplished together in 2023, because it was truly...

Trust in open-source software

Jan 24 • community

An open-source project enhances community trust in multiple ways. Strategies recommended by the Linux Foundation to enhance community trust include seeking out influential peers and mentors, practicing in an open...

OpenSearch AI and machine learning: Recapping 2023 and what’s next

Jan 16 • community-updates, technical-posts

In 2023, generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) captured the mainstream imagination and drove widespread AI-related initiatives. Vector database technology like OpenSearch got a share of the limelight, alleviating generative AI...

An update on the OpenSearch Project’s continued performance progress through version 2.11

Jan 10 • technical-posts, community

OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source search and analytics suite used by developers to ingest, search, visualize, and analyze data. Introduced in January 2021, the OpenSearch Project originated as an open-source...

OpenSearch research: Customer expectations of an intelligent dashboard assistant

Dec 21 • community

Given the increasing demand for artificial intelligence (AI), the obvious evolution of the dashboard user experience is the development of an intelligent assistant. User experience relies predominantly on the maturity...

Announcing the OpenSearch Project Leadership Committee

Dec 12 • community

We are taking another step on our journey toward a community-driven model of governance. We are thrilled to announce a sustaining OpenSearch Project Leadership Committee (LC) to help the OpenSearch...

Semantic Search with OpenSearch: Architecture options and Benchmarks

Dec 07 • technical-post

Unlike traditional lexical search algorithms such as BM25, which only take keywords into account, semantic search improves search relevance by understanding the context and semantic meaning of search terms and...

Improving document retrieval with sparse semantic encoders

Dec 05 • technical-posts

OpenSearch 2.11 introduced neural sparse search—a new efficient method of semantic retrieval. In this blog post, you’ll learn about using sparse encoders for semantic search. You’ll find that neural sparse...

OpenSearch adds a new generative AI assistant toolkit

Nov 30 • releases

OpenSearch is widely used by developers to build search and analytics solutions. One of the areas top of mind for our community has been how to use transformative technologies like...

Announcing Data Prepper 2.6.0

Nov 28 • releases

Data Prepper 2.6.0 is now available for download. Now you can now ingest data from DynamoDB, improve data durability by using the new Kafka buffer, and automatically connect to Amazon...