Two years after launching managed OpenSearch, we are closing the Elasticsearch service to new clusters. Existing customers keep running, and we will come to you about the migration rather than the other way round.
Read itIn 2013 you set up centralised logging by installing Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana, and the reason that was a good decision is that it was not really a decision. Ten years on, every letter has multiple credible answers, the licence under the first one has moved, and the integration work is yours. Here is what happened, what it costs, and the four questions I now use to pick a stack.
Read itOpenSearch has reached a stable release. We said in January that the answer to the Elasticsearch relicensing was an engine that is genuinely open with more than one vendor behind it, and this is the one. A managed service is in build.
Read itElastic has moved Elasticsearch and Kibana off Apache 2.0 and onto the SSPL and its own licence. The source is still readable. It is no longer open source, and that changes what any managed service can honestly promise.
Read itClusterNest is open. Managed Elasticsearch clusters, sized by tier and node count, with provisioning, upgrades, backups and monitoring on us. You pick two numbers and those two numbers are the bill.
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