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OpenSearch Solutions & Services

Deploy Free. Own Everything. Scale Without Limits. Expert engineering for OpenSearch — the fully open-source search, analytics, and security platform. No licensing fees, no vendor lock-in, full control of your data and infrastructure.

OpenSearchOpenSearch DashboardsISMSecurity AnalyticsOpenSearch ObservabilitySelf-Managed / Cloud
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Measured Outcomes
Outcome at a Glance
100%
Elimination of per-node, per-GB licensing fees — OpenSearch is Apache 2.0 open-source software with zero mandatory vendor costs
30–70%
Reduction in total storage cost through ISM-driven tiered retention, hot/warm/cold architecture, and index compression
25–55%
Faster search and dashboard performance via shard strategy, index template optimisation, and query cache tuning
35–65%
Reduction in alert noise through Security Analytics tuning, correlation rule refinement, and detection threshold calibration
2–4×
Faster time-to-production using HIT's reference architectures, deployment accelerators, and pre-built index templates
Full
Data sovereignty — self-managed on-prem or private cloud deployments with no telemetry, no SaaS dependency, no vendor audit rights
Why OpenSearch

Open Source. Zero Lock-in. Enterprise Ready.

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Truly Open Source — Apache 2.0

OpenSearch is maintained by AWS and a broad community under the Apache 2.0 licence. No proprietary features locked behind paid tiers, no licence audits, no sudden pricing changes. What you deploy is what you own.

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Full Data Sovereignty

Ideal for UK, European, and GCC regulated environments — deploy entirely on-premises or in a private cloud with no mandatory external connectivity. Meets GDPR, UK/EU NIS2, NCA, SAMA, and Qatar PDPL data localisation requirements without architectural compromise.

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Security Built-in at No Extra Cost

OpenSearch ships with TLS encryption, role-based access control, audit logging, field- and document-level security, and single sign-on (SAML/OIDC) — features that require a paid tier in competing platforms.

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Active Community & AWS Backing

OpenSearch is not a niche fork — it is actively developed by AWS, Red Hat, SAP, and a large contributor community. Production-grade releases ship regularly with security patches, new ML features, and performance improvements.

Professional Services

What HIT Delivers

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OpenSearch Security Analytics Deployment

Deploy and configure OpenSearch Security Analytics for SIEM use cases — detection rules, log correlation, alert triage workflows, and dashboards. MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detections built from day one.

35–65% false-positive reduction, 20–30% faster triage
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Observability & Log Analytics Implementation

Centralise logs, traces, and metrics in OpenSearch Observability. Build SLO-driven dashboards in OpenSearch Dashboards, configure alerting pipelines, and accelerate RCA with correlated telemetry.

20–40% lower MTTR, unified observability without SaaS cost
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Cluster Architecture & Performance Optimisation

Design and implement hot/warm/cold tiering with ISM policies, shard allocation strategy, index template standardisation, query tuning, and capacity planning for predictable long-term growth.

25–55% faster search, 30–70% lower storage cost
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Managed OpenSearch Services

Ongoing engineering support — monthly ISM policy reviews, detection rule tuning, index health monitoring, version upgrade planning, and capacity management. Keeps your cluster lean and performant over time.

QoQ cost down 10–15%, cluster incidents reduced 20–30%
Migration Services

Migrating to OpenSearch

Moving from Elasticsearch, Splunk, or another platform to OpenSearch? HIT engineers the migration end-to-end — reindexing, pipeline conversion, detection porting, and rollback planning — with zero data loss and minimal downtime.

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Migration Readiness & TCO Assessment

Inventory existing log sources, index volumes, retention requirements, and detection content. Model the TCO delta between your current platform and OpenSearch — including infrastructure, support, and engineering costs.

Outcome: Validated business case and phased migration roadmap
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Target Architecture Design

Reference architecture for self-managed bare-metal, VM, Kubernetes, or AWS OpenSearch Service. Design hot/warm/cold ISM tiers, HA/DR topology, network security zones, and RBAC model before a single byte is migrated.

Outcome: Production-grade architecture with documented capacity model
03

Data Pipeline Conversion & Onboarding

Convert Logstash, Beats, Fluentd, or OpenTelemetry pipelines to target OpenSearch ingest. Remap index templates, apply field normalisation, and validate data quality before cutover.

Outcome: Consistent schema and verified data fidelity across all sources
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Detection Content Migration

Port Sigma rules, Elastic KQL rules, or legacy SIEM correlation logic into OpenSearch Security Analytics detection format. Validate parity and tune thresholds against your actual log baseline.

Outcome: Detection coverage maintained or improved post-migration
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Dashboard & Alerting Rebuild

Recreate key operational dashboards in OpenSearch Dashboards with improved layout and drill-down capability. Configure alerting monitors, notification channels, and escalation workflows.

Outcome: Full operational visibility from day one post-cutover
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Cutover, Validation & Handover

Dual-run period to validate parity, benchmark ingest TPS and query latency, tune ISM policies and shard allocation, then execute controlled cutover. Full runbooks and knowledge transfer delivered at close.

Outcome: Zero-loss cutover with documented baseline for future optimisation
Deployment Models

Every Deployment Model Supported

Self-Managed On-PremisesPrivate Cloud (VMware / KVM)Kubernetes / OpenSearch OperatorAWS OpenSearch ServiceHybrid (On-Prem + Cloud)Air-Gapped Environments
Source Platforms We Migrate From
Elasticsearch (all versions)Splunk EnterpriseIBM QRadarMicrosoft SentinelDatadogGraylogWazuhOpenDistro for Elasticsearch
Industries
Government & Public SectorBanking & Financial ServicesTelecomHealthcare & Life SciencesEnergy & UtilitiesTechnology & SaaSManufacturing

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