Show HN: Pulse – Maintain healthy OpenSearch and Elasticsearch clusters

Posted by zevir on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:12AM
from the show-hn dept.

Hey HN - Pulse (https://pulse.support) is a platform that’s making it easy for teams to maintain the health of their OpenSearch and Elasticsearch clusters.

Key features (this is not just 'another monitoring tool'): * Proactive monitoring to detect cluster issues before they impact cost and performance * Actionable recommendations for resolving potential issues that are detected * Cluster health assessments - clear daily status reports for the stability, performance, security, and resiliency of your clusters * Dashboards designed for Opensearch and Elasticsearch with pre-built views for nodes and indices, shard heat maps and k-NN vector search * 24/7 expert (human) support to help with more nuanced, complex issues that come up

Check it out and try it - feedback and questions welcome!

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Re:Show HN: Pulse – Maintain healthy OpenSearch and Elastics... by pradumnasaraf on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @11:44AM (#43104201)

Looks cool. I was looking into a similar solution recently and had a conversation with someone on this. Will check it out.

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Re:Show HN: Pulse – Maintain healthy OpenSearch and Elastics... by synhershko on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @12:11PM (#43104533)

This is great! Thanks! Founder of Pulse here. Happy to chat if you'd like to discuss further. I'm itamar at the pulse domain.

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Re:Show HN: Pulse – Maintain healthy OpenSearch and Elastics... by Genesys123 on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @10:45AM (#43103313)

Looks cool but we’re currently using Datadog to monitor our Elasticsearch cluster, how is this different/better?

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Re:Show HN: Pulse – Maintain healthy OpenSearch and Elastics... by synhershko on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @12:10PM (#43104523)

It's absolutely complimentry. Pulse is an official Datadog partner and has an integration to Datadog. Pulse will send Datadog events and alerts it generates, enriching the Datadog experience.

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Re:Show HN: Pulse – Maintain healthy OpenSearch and Elastics... by easyare on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:36AM (#43102561)

I've seen some similar ES solutions, but I haven't seen one like this for opensearch. What's your level of support for opensearch?

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Re:Show HN: Pulse – Maintain healthy OpenSearch and Elastics... by synhershko on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @12:13PM (#43104553)

We fully support both Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, each with their own specifics. For OpenSearch we support Ultrawarm / searchable snapshots, kNN vector search, and so on.

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Re:Show HN: Pulse – Maintain healthy OpenSearch and Elastics... by Artemon on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:52AM (#43102732)

Whats the largest cluster you support? I’ve been looking for something thats effective at scale.

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Re:Show HN: Pulse – Maintain healthy OpenSearch and Elastics... by synhershko on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @12:12PM (#43104542)

It's in the hundreds of nodes.

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Re:Show HN: Pulse – Maintain healthy OpenSearch and Elastics... by Siddhant023 on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:25AM (#43102459)

Interesting, however, we can't expose our cluster publicly (it's within a Google Cloud VPC). TBH, the lack of tools that support our config in general is frustrating. How would Pulse work in an environment like this?

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Re:Show HN: Pulse – Maintain healthy OpenSearch and Elastics... by synhershko on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @12:09PM (#43104500)

Great question! we created Pulse with exactly this in mind - supporting Elasticsearch (and OpenSearch) running anywhere. You don't need the cluster to be exposed publicly. Integrating with Pulse is just about installing a lightweight and secure agent, which transmits metrics (only metrics, never data) to our service.

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Re:Show HN: Pulse – Maintain healthy OpenSearch and Elastics... by efrat25 on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:17AM (#43102385)

Will this work with older Elasticsearch versions too? (I'm running ES 2.4)

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Re:Show HN: Pulse – Maintain healthy OpenSearch and Elastics... by synhershko on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @12:05PM (#43104457)

Hi! I'm the founder of Pulse. This is a great question! although it's a very old version, we do see it in the wild every so often and indeed, Pulse supports 2.x as well.

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