Introduction to Managed OpenSearch
DigitalOcean offers a fully-managed OpenSearch service that allows businesses to unlock powerful log management and search capabilities while offloading cluster provisioning, backups, and updates to the platform. OpenSearch, an open-source search and analytics suite tailored for growing businesses, empowers users to efficiently index, search, and analyze vast amounts of data.
Key Features of Managed OpenSearch
1. Simplified Logs Management: DigitalOcean takes care of the OpenSearch cluster management, enabling users to optimize their applications with features like log management, observability, search, and analytics. 2. Highly Scalable: Businesses can easily scale up their OpenSearch clusters by dynamically increasing CPUs, RAM, and storage to support their growth. 3. Free Daily Backups: With hourly backups for the first 24 hours and up to 3 days of daily backups, users can ensure data security and integrity. 4. Easy Deployment: Setting up a fully-managed OpenSearch cluster is quick and straightforward, allowing users to meet their scaling needs efficiently.
Benefits of Managed OpenSearch
1. High Availability: DigitalOcean's automated backup, monitoring, and failover features help maintain high availability and reliability for all clusters, reducing downtime and ensuring data integrity. 2. Easy Scalability: Users can enhance the scalability and performance of their OpenSearch clusters by leveraging robust indexing, log management capabilities, and query mechanisms. 3. Real-time Analytics: Access real-time, interactive log analytics, application analytics, metrics analytics, and security analytics to make data-driven decisions.
Security and Performance Enhancements
DigitalOcean ensures end-to-end security for OpenSearch clusters, operating them in private networks with strict access controls. Data is further secured with encryption (in transit and at rest), authentication measures, audit logging, and compliance features. Additionally, users can easily optimize performance by adding storage or nodes to their clusters, or by upgrading their plans to shared or dedicated options.
Log Forwarding and Application Monitoring
For enhanced application monitoring, users can forward log data from various DigitalOcean sources, including Managed Databases, App Platform, and Kubernetes, to Managed OpenSearch. This enables companies to streamline troubleshooting, visualize data for monitoring application health, performance, and security, and gain valuable insights for improved operational efficiency.