The Open Distro project is archived. Open Distro development has moved to OpenSearch. The Open Distro plugins will continue to work with legacy versions of Elasticsearch OSS, but we recommend upgrading to OpenSearch to take advantage of the latest features and improvements.
Open Distro Documentation
This site contains the technical documentation for Open Distro, the community-driven, 100% open source distribution of Elasticsearch with advanced security, alerting, SQL support, automated index management, deep performance analysis, and more.
Why use Open Distro?
Open Distro is well-suited to the following use cases:
- Log analytics
- Real-time application monitoring
- Clickstream analytics
- Search backend
Open Distro combines the OSS distributions of Elasticsearch and Kibana with a large number of open source plugins. These plugins fill important feature gaps in the OSS distributions.
| Component | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Elasticsearch | Data store and search engine |
| Kibana | Search frontend and visualizations |
| Security | Authentication and access control for your cluster |
| Alerting | Receive notifications when your data meets certain conditions |
| SQL | Use SQL or a piped processing language to query your data |
| Index State Management | Automate index operations |
| KNN | Find “nearest neighbors” in your vector data |
| Performance Analyzer | Monitor and optimize your cluster |
| Anomaly Detection | Identify atypical data and receive automatic notifications |
| Asynchronous Search | Run search requests in the background |
You can install Elasticsearch plugins individually on existing OSS clusters or use the all-in-one packages for new clusters. Most of these Elasticsearch plugins have corresponding Kibana plugins that provide a convenient, unified user interface.
Get started
Open Distro for Elasticsearch OSS is no longer being developed and no longer available for download. Please visit OpenSearch documentation to learn about upgrading to OpenSearch and getting started with our improved open source solution.
OpenSearch includes certain Apache-licensed Elasticsearch code from Elasticsearch B.V. and other source code. Elasticsearch B.V. is not the source of that other source code. ELASTICSEARCH is a registered trademark of Elasticsearch B.V.