Managing search telemetry settings

Because there are thousands of concurrent search requests from OpenSearch Dashboards, the heavy traffic can cause significant load in an OpenSearch cluster.

Search usage telemetry is turned off by default. To turn it on, you need to set data.search.usageTelemetry.enabled to true in the opensearch_dashboards.yml file.

Turning on telemetry in the file overrides the default search telemetry setting of false in the .

Sample opensearch_dashboards.yml with telemetry enabled

This OpenSearch Dashboards YAML file excerpt shows the telemetry setting set to true to turn on search telemetry: