DTEX's OpenSearch Journey: From Migration to Innovation

DTEX’s OpenSearch Journey: From Migration to Innovation - Prashant Agrawal, OpenSearch & Sulabh Jain, DTEX Organizations migrating to OpenSearch face the critical challenge of ensuring business continuity during transition. This session provides a comprehensive approach for successful migration, combining practical demonstrations with real-world implementation strategies. We’ll begin with a hands-on demonstration of the OpenSearch Migration Assistant, showcasing the reindex-from-snapshot technique. The live demonstration will cover compatibility assessment, preservation of index settings and mappings, and efficient handling of historical data. OpenSearch Foundation member DTEX Systems will then share their enterprise migration journey, detailing their transition to OpenSearch and the reengineering of legacy dashboard customizations. By leveraging React-based, TypeScript-driven plugin architecture, DTEX redesigned previously customized features to ensure long-term maintainability, streamlined upgrades, and continuous security patching—while preserving core functionality. Learn how their cybersecurity use cases shaped the migration strategy and led to meaningful contributions to the OpenSearch ecosystem. Whether you’re handling terabytes of data or customizing dashboards for specialized use cases, this session provides actionable insights and a blueprint for successful OpenSearch migration at scale.