From 23981ecc33a3272065f8f8bbdf8b54d465c277d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ashwinkumar12345 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 23:31:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] incorporated feedback --- _opensearch/data-streams.md | 13 ++----------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/_opensearch/data-streams.md b/_opensearch/data-streams.md index 20bc65a1..db38528d 100644 --- a/_opensearch/data-streams.md +++ b/_opensearch/data-streams.md @@ -12,16 +12,7 @@ If you're ingesting continuously generated time-series data such as logs, events - You don’t need to update older documents. - Your searches generally target the newer documents. -A typical workflow to manage time-series data is as follows: - -- To split your data into an index for each day, use the rollover operation. -- To perform searches on a virtual index name that gets expanded to the underlying indices, create an [index alias]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/opensearch/index-alias/). -- To perform a write operation on an index alias, configure the latest index as the write index. -- To configure new indices, extract common mappings and settings into an [index template]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/opensearch/index-templates/). - -Even after you perform all these operations, you’re still not enforcing the best practices when dealing with time-series data. For example, you can modify the indices directly. You’re able to ingest documents without a timestamp field, which might result in slower queries. - -Data streams abstract the complexity and enforce the best practices for managing time-series data. +A typical workflow to manage time-series data consists of setting up aliases, performing rollover operations, configuring read and write indices, and defining common mapping fields such as a timestamp field. Data streams simplifies this process. With data streams, you can store append-only time-series data across multiple indices with a single endpoint for ingesting and searching data. We recommend using data streams in place of index aliases for time-series data. @@ -276,7 +267,7 @@ To manage data streams from OpenSearch Dashboards, open **OpenSearch Dashboards* You see a toggle switch for data streams that you can use to show or hide indices belonging to a data stream. When you enable this switch, you see a data stream multi-select dropdown menu that you can use for filtering data streams. -You also see a data stream column that shows you the name of the parent data stream the index is contained in. +You also see a data stream column that shows you the name of the data stream the index is contained in. ![data stream toggle]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/images/data_streams_toggle.png)