List of Available OpenSearch Plugins

Plugins available with Instaclustr for OpenSearch

Instaclustr for OpenSearch includes a range of OpenSearch plugins. These plugins can be enabled at anytime through our console, API or Terraform. These are the plugins that can be enabled:

Plugin Name

Description

Index Management

Automate recurring index management activities and reduce storage costs. See the official OpenSearch documentation for the plugin for further information.

Reporting

Create reports from OpenSearch Dashboards for a range of formats (csv, pdf and png). See the official OpenSearch documentation for the plugin for further information.

ICU Analysis

Extend support for ICU libraries into OpenSearch.

k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN)

Create a recommendation engine by indexing neighbors in your data points.

Alerting

Observe your data, and create custom alerts that trigger under specified conditions in indexes.

Notifications

Configure your communication services and manage notifications coming from OpenSearch.
Anomaly Detection

Use machine learning to understand patterns and anomalies in your data.

Asynchronous Search

Run larger search requests in the background of your main search workload.
SQL

Make queries using SQL rather than OpenSearch query-domain specific language (DSL)
Searchable Snapshots

Search through remotely stored indices in snapshots without having to restore them to the local storage.
Cross-cluster Replication

Configure indices to be automatically replicated from leader to follower clusters.
Observability

Use OpenSearch Dashboards to correlate, analyze, and visualize your application data like logs, metrics, and traces.
AI Search/Neural Search

Integrate artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to enhance advanced search methods like semantic, hybrid, multimodal, and neural sparse search.

Plugins Enabled by Default with Instaclustr for OpenSearch

The following plugins are enabled by default for all clusters.

Plugin Name

Description
Open Search Custom Codecs

Allows users to provide custom Lucene codecs.
Open Search Job Scheduler

Core framework to support running periodic or scheduled jobs within OpenSearch nodes.
Open Search Geospatial

Enables the use of geospatial data types and query by geography.
Open Search Security

Provides additional security functionalities such as transport encryption, authentication and access control.
Mapper Size Configure indices to automatically store document sizes. See the official OpenSearch documentation for the plugin for further information.
Repository-Azure

Allows backups to be stored in Azure Blob Storage (only usable for clusters hosted in Azure).
Repository-GCS

Allows backups to be stored in Google Cloud Storage (only usable for clusters hosted in GCP).
Repository-S3

Allows backups to be stored in AWS S3 (only usable for clusters hosted in AWS).

Plugins Enabled by Default when AI Search enabled with Instaclustr for OpenSearch

The following plugins are enabled by default for clusters with AI Search plugin enabled.

Plugin Name

Description
ML Commons 

Deploy and run machine learning models locally on nodes or connect to externally hosted models.
K-NN

Adds support for vector data to store vector embeddings, and k-NN search leveraged by the AI Search plugin. 
Flow Framework 

Simplify ML related setup pipelines. 

Search Relevance 

Enhance search result accuracy and provides tooling to evaluate the accuracy of search results across different queries.