OpenSearch Release Notes

Validated on 28 Apr 2026 • Last edited on 12 Aug 2025

April 2026

28 April

• DigitalOcean Vector Databases is now generally available in Data Services that groups managed engines for vector similarity search. The launch includes:

  • Weaviate in private preview for retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search workloads. Available to opted-in customers; preview clusters are not billed.
  • OpenSearch with the k-NN, ML Commons, and Neural Search plugins for hybrid (vector plus keyword) search and remote embedding models. Uses the existing Managed Databases OpenSearch engine.
  • PostgreSQL with the vector (pgvector) and vectorscale (pgvectorscale) extensions for vector similarity search alongside relational data.

  For an overview and guidance on choosing an engine, see Vector Databases.

September 2025

17 September

• Storage autoscaling is now in general availability. Additionally, you can now reduce your cluster’s amount of additional storage, as long as the new storage size is greater than or equal to the latest backup’s size plus any data growth since then and a 25% buffer.

• Now in public preview, you can now enable storage autoscaling on all Managed Database engines. To enable autoscaling, see our resizing guides for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, OpenSearch, and Kafka.

May 2025

16 May

• New managed database clusters are now automatically provisioned with default alert policies for CPU, memory, and disk utilization at a 90% threshold. These alerts notify you via email when resource usage is high, so you can investigate your application load or scale your cluster. You can modify or remove the default alerts at any time. For more information, see the following:

  • How to Set Up Kafka Cluster Monitoring Alerts
  • How to Set Up MongoDB Cluster Monitoring Alerts
  • How to Set Up MySQL Cluster Monitoring Alerts
  • How to Set Up OpenSearch Cluster Monitoring Alerts
  • How to Set Up PostgreSQL Cluster Monitoring Alerts
  • How to Set Up Valkey Cluster Monitoring Alerts

February 2025

28 February

• All managed databases except MongoDB now support up to 2,000 IP addresses as trusted sources. To add trusted sources, see our guides for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Caching, MongoDB, OpenSearch, and Kafka.

December 2024

20 December

• All Managed Databases are now available in NYC2.

October 2024

29 October

• Forwarding logs from your App Platform app to your DigitalOcean Managed OpenSearch cluster is now in general availability.

• Forwarding cluster event logs from your DOKS cluster to your DigitalOcean Managed OpenSearch cluster is now in general availability. You can forward logs using the control panel or the API.

September 2024

12 September

• You can now forward cluster event logs from your DOKS cluster to your DigitalOcean Managed OpenSearch cluster. This feature is in beta. You can send us your feedback about the feature.

1 September

• You can now manage DigitalOcean OpenSearch users by creating access control lists (ACLs) with the API.

June 2024

20 June

• You can now forward logs from your App Platform app to your DigitalOcean Managed OpenSearch Cluster. This feature is in beta.

17 June

• You can now manage OpenSearch users by creating access control lists (ACLs) using the API.