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The Definitive Guide to OpenSearch
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The Definitive Guide to OpenSearch

by Jon Handler, Soujanya Konka, Prashant Agrawal
September 2025
Beginner to intermediate
386 pages
9h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Analyze and Visualize OpenSearch Data

In this chapter, we'll dive deep into OpenSearch's analytics capabilities, provided through aggregations. We'll also dive deep into OpenSearch Dashboards' visualization, dashboarding, and observability tools. We've touched briefly on aggregations in prior chapters for their use in faceted search. Aggregations count values in text fields for faceting. For fields with numeric values, OpenSearch can provide numerical analysis, like summing all the values in a field, or taking their average, minimum, or maximum. When you combine time-based bucketing with numeric computation and OpenSearch filtering, you get a powerful tool for creating visualizations like charts and graphs for the data in your logs. OpenSearch ...

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