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Operational excellence - Amazon OpenSearch Service Lens
Design principles

Operational excellence

The operational excellence pillar offers guidance on effectively running and monitoring systems to deliver business value, while continually improving supporting processes and procedures. This involves maintaining high-quality Amazon OpenSearch Service domains, gaining operational insights, and continually improving processes to achieve organizational outcomes and values.

The subsequent questions and best practices complement those outlined in the Operational Excellence Pillar whitepaper.

Focus areas

Design principles

In addition to the AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper principles, the following design principles can help achieve operational excellence for your Amazon OpenSearch Service workloads:

  • Implement monitoring and alerting: Set up comprehensive monitoring and alerting within OpenSearch deployments, featuring log analysis, performance tracking, and notification systems that provide real-time alerts for slow queries, security events, and critical errors.

  • Optimize index management: Employ efficient index management strategies, such as using Index templates and removing unused indexes, to maintain a clean and efficient index namespace.

  • Implement a regular snapshot: Implement regular snapshots using Index State Management (ISM) to ensure consistent backups of OpenSearch data.