Welcome to the OpenSearch documentation! With this documentation, you’ll learn how to use OpenSearch — the only 100% open-source search, analytics, and visualization suite.
We have a dedicated and growing number of technical writers who are building our documentation library. We also welcome and encourage community input. To contribute, see the [Contributing](https://opensearch.org/source.html) file. A good place to start is by browsing issues labeled “_good first issue_.”
OpenSearch has several features and plugins to help index, secure, monitor, and analyze your data. Most OpenSearch plugins have corresponding OpenSearch Dashboards plugins that provide a convenient, unified user interface.
- [Anomaly detection]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/monitoring-plugins/ad/) - Identify atypical data and receive automatic notifications
- [KNN]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/search-plugins/knn/) - Find “nearest neighbors” in your vector data
- [Performance Analyzer]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/monitoring-plugins/pa/) - Monitor and optimize your cluster
- [SQL]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/search-plugins/sql/) - Use SQL or a piped processing language to query your data
- [Index State Management]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/im-plugin/) - Automate index operations
- [ML Commons plugin]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/ml-commons-plugin/index/) - Train and execute machine-learning models
- [Asynchronous search]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/search-plugins/async/) - Run search requests in the background
- [Cross-cluster replication]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/replication-plugin/index/) - Replicate your data across multiple OpenSearch clusters
The best way to try out OpenSearch is to use Docker Compose. Setting up OpenSearch with Docker Compose sets up a two-node cluster of OpenSearch plus OpenSearch Dashboards.
1. [Add some data]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/opensearch/index-data/) to your newly created index.
```bash
curl -XPUT --insecure -u 'admin:admin' 'https://localhost:9200/my-first-index/_doc/1' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"Description": "To be or not to be, that is the question."}'
```
1. [Retrieve the data]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/opensearch/index-data/#read-data) to see that it was added properly.
To learn more, see [Docker image]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/opensearch/install/docker/) and [Configuring basic security settings]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/opensearch/install/docker#configuring-basic-security-settings).
OpenSearch includes a demo configuration so that you can get up and running quickly, but before using OpenSearch in a production environment, you must [configure the security plugin manually]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/security-plugin/configuration/index/) with your own certificates, authentication method, users, and passwords.
[OpenSearch](https://opensearch.org) is supported by Amazon Web Services. All components are available under the [Apache License, Version 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html) on [GitHub](https://github.com/opensearch-project/).
The project welcomes GitHub issues, bug fixes, features, plugins, documentation---anything at all. To get involved, see [Contributing](https://opensearch.org/source.html) on the OpenSearch website.
<small>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.</small>