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How Does Bonsai Secure Data?

At Bonsai, security and privacy are always a top concern. We are constantly evaluating the service and our vendors for vulnerabilities and f...

Elasticsearch Disaster Recovery

Bonsai has more safeguards to protect your search cluster's reliability than any other Elasticsearch provider. Disaster recovery plan for al...

How Bonsai Manages Watermarks

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Plugins on Bonsai

Elasticsearch has a menagerie of available plugins, including support for custom ones. We often get asked through our support channels wheth...

Incident Response Times

Bonsai's support policy categorizes incident severity into three tiers. You can use these severity levels to help communicate the level of s...

Bonsai Architecture

Bonsai offers two main architecture classes: multitenant and single tenant. The multitenant class – sometimes called "shared" – is designed ...

Shard Primer

For people new to Elasticsearch, shards can be a bit of a mystery. Why is it possible to add or remove replica shards on demand, but not pri...

Unsupported API Endpoints

Bonsai clusters support most Elasticsearch APIs out of the box, with a few exceptions. This article details those exceptions, along with a b...

Core Concepts

Here's a primer on all the major concepts you need to be familiar with Elasticsearch. Throughout the Bonsai documentation, we use a standard...

Snapshots

The Snapshot and Restore feature is a really nice set of tools for backing up and restoring your data. Because Bonsai is a managed service t...

Supported Versions

Bonsai supports a large number of Elasticsearch versions in regions all over the world. Multitenant class clusters usually have more limited...

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