n the old days of Connections, we would check our ElasticSearch indexes through Kibana, but Kibana is no longer part of an HCL Connections Component pack installation. In HCL Connections 8, OpenSearch is a core component powering features like Orient Me, Type-Ahead Search, and Metrics. As an administrator, it’s critical not just to ensure that OpenSearch is running, but to verify that it’s indexing, storing, and serving content correctly.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/07/01/querying-your-opensearch-index/