Newbee Questions ELK Vs OpenSearch

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Good Morning all, we are new to ElastiFlow and looking at the different options of platforms to use. We originally went down the ELK (Elastics) pathway until we found out the cost and nearly fell off my chair! We have started to look at “Open Search” as and alternative.
We have some question regarding using ELK. Are most using the community edition of ELK and if so does ElastiFlow anomaly detection still work? I know that as far as Elastics is concerned anomaly detection is part of the commercial suite and not the community edition suite. Also we have an interest in connecting this all to AI. Once again in the community edition of Elastics the AI connector is disabled. Same question really, does Elastiflow have AI connectors or is a function of the underlying suite?

What (if any) are the limitations, drawbacks of running ElastiFlow on OpenSearch rather than Elastics?

Thank you in advance

Alan Scott

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Both Elastic and OpenSearch are supported by ElastiFlow, and many organizations use both. Numerous ElastiFlow users have opted for the community edition of Elastic. However, accessing the Machine Learning features in Elastic requires a commercial license from Elastic. A good resource to consult is the ElastiFlow documentation: ElastiFlow on Elastic and ElastiFlow on OpenSearch.

Pat

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Hey Pat,

Thanks for the response. From what I can see ElastiFlow includes anomaly detection as part of its feature set. So the question I’m asking is, if it is part of EF then why would we need machine learning (commercial version) from Elastics?

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The anomaly features of ElastiFlow currently leverage the features of Elastic and OpenSearch. So yes to use the anomaly detection jobs in Elastic requires a commercial Elastic license.