Somewhat off topic, but I bet someone on HN that stumbles here will have relevant experience.

Is OpenSearch Dashboards (their Kibana fork) any good/is AWS being a good steward and moving it forward?

I ask because I’m in the process of updating some AWS infra in an org that uses Kibana. Our version is quite old and I’d like to upgrade both it & the ES storage layer to use newer APM features, etc.

I sympathize with Elastic’s position & their licensing change but as pragmatically I’d like to use an OpenSearch cluster and not be responsible for administering an ES cluster myself. But Kibana refuses to run pointing at an OpenSearch cluster.

So the question is, I guess, if I go all-in on OpenSearch does that seem like a sound long term choice? Alternatively, is Elastic.co’s cloud hosting competitive (from a run through their pricing calculator I think it would be more expensive)?