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. |
Create a recommendation engine by indexing neighbors in your data points. |
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Observe your data, and create custom alerts that trigger under specified conditions in indexes. |
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Configure your communication services and manage notifications coming from OpenSearch. |
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Anomaly Detection |
Use machine learning to understand patterns and anomalies in your data. |
Run larger search requests in the background of your main search workload. |
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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. |
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). |