# OpenSearch How-Tos

Generated on 19 Mar 2026

OpenSearch is an open-source search and analytics suite which serves as a centralized location to manage logs forwarded from other resources, such as databases and Droplets.

## Getting Started

[How to Create OpenSearch Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/create/index.html.md): Create a OpenSearch cluster from the DigitalOcean Control Panel.

[How to Connect to OpenSearch Database Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/connect/index.html.md): Connect to OpenSearch database clusters from the command line or other applications.

[How to Secure OpenSearch Managed Database Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/secure/index.html.md): Add additional security to an OpenSearch managed database cluster by restricting incoming connections and using encrypted connections.

[How to Migrate Elasticsearch Databases to DigitalOcean OpenSearch](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/migrate/index.html.md): Reindex data from a remote Elasticsearch cluster to migrate it to an OpenSearch cluster.

[How to Schedule Automatic Software Updates for OpenSearch Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/schedule-updates/index.html.md): Customize the maintenance window for automatic software updates to your database cluster.

[How to Tag OpenSearch Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/tag/index.html.md): Organize OpenSearch databases clusters with tags to group and filter databases or create monitoring alert policies for multiple databases at once.

## Cluster Infrastructure

[How to Forward Logs to OpenSearch Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/forward-logs/index.html.md): Forward logs from managed databases to your Managed OpenSearch cluster.

[How to Resize OpenSearch Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/resize/index.html.md): Increase the size of your database cluster to accommodate your data needs.

[How to Monitor OpenSearch Database Cluster Performance](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/monitor-clusters/index.html.md): Access and understand performance metrics for nodes in a database cluster.

[How to Set Up OpenSearch Cluster Monitoring Alerts](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/set-up-alerts/index.html.md): Configure alert policies based on database cluster performance metrics.

## OpenSearch Management

[How to Manage OpenSearch Users](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/manage-users/index.html.md): Create and delete a database cluster’s users from the DigitalOcean Control Panel and API.

[How to Reconfigure OpenSearch Database Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/reconfigure/index.html.md): Edit your database engine’s configuration and parameters via the API.

## Cluster Management

[How to Relocate Database Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/relocate/index.html.md): Change a cluster’s regional datacenter.

[How to Fork an OpenSearch Database Cluster](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/fork-clusters/index.html.md): Fork a database cluster to create a new cluster from an existing cluster based on a specific point in time.

[How to Manually Restore OpenSearch Database Clusters from Backups](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/restore-from-backups/index.html.md): Recover from accidental data loss by manually restoring a OpenSearch database cluster from backups.

[How to Destroy OpenSearch Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/opensearch/how-to/destroy/index.html.md): Destroy a database cluster to permanently and irreversibly destroy the cluster, its contents, and its automated backups.