OpenSearchCon: Together after 18 Months

OpenSearch, an open-source alternative to ElasticSearch and Kibana, has achieved significant milestones since its inception 1.5 years ago, including garnering over 5,800 stars on GitHub and ranking among the top five search engines according to DB-Engines. The community-driven project, showcased at OpenSearchCon 2022 in Seattle, highlighted advancements in areas such as machine learning for security anomaly detection, improvements in plugin architecture, and developments in the OpenSearch Kubernetes operator. The conference featured discussions led by contributors like Lennart Koopmann and Nicholas Knize, along with roadmap insights from Amazon's Charlotte Henkle. Attendees learned about efforts to enhance OpenSearch's performance and scalability, with contributions from various teams, including Aiven and Opster. The event underscored OpenSearch's vision for unified observability and its potential transition into a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, while encouraging further community involvement through forums, meetups, and public roadmaps.