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
How We Built & Designed Operational Metrics
The newest feature to join the dashboard family is the one we’ve been most excited about: announcing Bonsai’s Elasticsearch operations metrics, a…
January 2, 2018
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Bonsai Unaffected by Recent Ransomware Attack
How Bonsai's built-in security architecture kept customer data safe when ransomware attackers hit tens of thousands of unsecured MongoDB and Elas…
January 17, 2017
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Rails 5 with Bonsai
Getting started with Bonsai Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails is incredibly quick and simple to do.
October 17, 2016
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Rails 5 with Bonsai
Getting started with Bonsai Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails is incredibly quick and simple to do.
April 15, 2016
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Introducing: Live Streaming Logs
You can find the logs for your cluster under the Logs tab in your cluster dashboard.
April 4, 2016
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Logstash and Bonsai and bots, oh my!
Sometimes we’re asked if we support Logstash.
February 13, 2016
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The Ideal Elasticsearch Index
At the core of Elasticsearch’s popularity is the ease and simplicity of setting up a cluster.
January 11, 2016
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Can I have multiple indices on a shard?
We sometimes hear from users concerned about their shard counts.
November 19, 2015
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Efficient sorting of geo distances in Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is much more than just a search engine: it’s also a powerful analytics tool.
April 14, 2015
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Elasticsearch and the IllegalArgumentException (docID must be >= 0)
We sometimes get support tickets from users asking about this error message.
April 6, 2015
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Measuring Availability as an Elasticsearch Hosting Provider
Our uptime in September, as reported by external polling, was 100%.
October 2, 2014
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Announcing Kibana!
Many of our customers have asked for Kibana, the popular analytics package which is now officially part of Elasticsearch’s suite of tools.
September 22, 2014
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