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Risky Operations in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch
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Blog Post: Risky Operations in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch

When operating large search clusters with heavy traffic, there are certain risky operations you should avoid. In this post, we present a comprehensive list of these operations to raise awarness and help you avoid footguns.

October 1, 2025

5 Principles of Search

5 Principles of Search

Want to find a needle in a haystack? Just drop the haystack into a search engine, type “needle” into the query box, and click Search.

December 6, 2021

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Want to build a powerful search engine? Start with the user experience

Want to build a powerful search engine? Start with the user experience

Just a few years ago, user experience in design was seen as an afterthought.

November 23, 2021

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Slow search engine? CPU is probably your biggest bottleneck

Slow search engine? CPU is probably your biggest bottleneck

Your website visitors don’t have much patience for slow load speeds. Most users will leave if they type something into your search engine and hav…

November 19, 2021

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Comparison of Elasticsearch Ruby Gems

Comparison of Elasticsearch Ruby Gems

If you’ve ever wanted to supercharge your app’s search capabilities, there’s no better tool to use than Elasticsearch. Integrating Elasticsearch …

August 18, 2021

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Releasing a Major UI Rewrite

Releasing a Major UI Rewrite

Last year we rolled out a new version of our product UI. It is the official fourth large-scale UI redesign we’ve rolled out with Bonsai.

July 27, 2021

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Announcing Okta Enterprise Availability

Announcing Okta Enterprise Availability

Bonsai has long supported single sign-on (SSO) using Google as an Identity Provider.

July 21, 2021

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Migrating from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch

Migrating from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch

This post is the third installment of our series on OpenSearch. In this post, we’re going to explore some different ways of migrating data from E…

July 12, 2021

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Up and Running with OpenSearch

Up and Running with OpenSearch

This is the second post in our OpenSearch series. In this post, we’ll discuss how to set up an OpenSearch cluster on Bonsai, as well as on your l…

July 11, 2021

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Welcome to OpenSearch

Welcome to OpenSearch

Bonsai has officially rolled out support for OpenSearch 1.0.0! Users can now choose between OpenSearch and Elasticsearch when creating a cluster.…

July 10, 2021

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The Importance of Shard Math in Elasticsearch

The Importance of Shard Math in Elasticsearch

As Customer Success Engineers for Bonsai, we often interface with people experiencing problems with their cluster.

May 3, 2021

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Pathological Regular Expressions in Elasticsearch

Pathological Regular Expressions in Elasticsearch

In the past week, we had the opportunity to help a customer diagnose a fairly convoluted issue that led to increasingly stale results.

April 22, 2021

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Why Elasticsearch should not be your Primary Data Store

Why Elasticsearch should not be your Primary Data Store

During day-to-day conversations with customers, we often encounter people that either want to use Elasticsearch as their primary data store or th…

March 4, 2021

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