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.
Oct 1, 2025
Rails 5 with Bonsai
Getting started with Bonsai Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails is incredibly quick and simple to do.
Oct 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.
Apr 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.
Apr 4, 2016
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Logstash and Bonsai and bots, oh my!
Sometimes we’re asked if we support Logstash.
Feb 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.
Jan 11, 2016
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Can I have multiple indices on a shard?
We sometimes hear from users concerned about their shard counts.
Nov 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.
Apr 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.
Apr 6, 2015
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Measuring Availability as an Elasticsearch Hosting Provider
Our uptime in September, as reported by external polling, was 100%.
Oct 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.
Sep 22, 2014
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Elasticsearch 1.0 has launched!
Big congratulations to the Elasticsearch team, which shipped its version 1.0 yesterday!
Feb 12, 2014
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The Case for Multi-Index Search
One of Elasticsearch’s biggest strengths is the ease of creating many indexes. It’s just a simple HTTP POST, and you’re ready to start indexing d…
Feb 19, 2013
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