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Using UBI in Elasticsearch: Creating an app with UBI and search-ui - September 1, 2025

Learn how to use UBI in Elasticsearch through a practical example. We’ll be creating an application that produces UBI events on search and click results. From the Elastic team.

Elasticsearch plugin for UBI: Analyze user behavior from search queries - August 1, 2025

Discover how to use the UBI plugin to capture search queries and events in Elasticsearch to learn about user behavior. From the Elastic team.

A vibe coded Fastify + OpenSearch UBI Hello World App - July, 2025

A minimal "Hello World" web application using Node.js with the Fastify v5 framework, containerized with Docker, and integrated with OpenSearch v3 User Behavior Insights (UBI) plugin.

UBI released in OpenSearch 3.1 - June 24, 2025

OpenSearch 3.1 releases with opensearch-ubi plugin included and new Search Relevance Workbench that delivers implicit judgments using UBI data.

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion blueprint - January 27, 2025

A blueprint yaml is now available for creating an Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipeline to facilitate persisting of UBI queries and events.

OpenSearch 2.18.0.1 UBI Plugin - November 19, 2024

  • Adding an API endpoint to initialize the plugin and create the UBI indexes
  • Add query_id to the events mapping
  • Change user_query to be a keyword

OpenSearch 2.18.0.0 UBI Plugin - November 15, 2024

  • Capturing application in the events
  • Changing the timestamp to strict_date_time for consistency
  • Handling msearch requests

UBI 1.2.0 Announced - October 25, 2024

This release introduces a formal application element to both queries and events so you can distingus different sources of queries and their follow on events. Think type-ahead and search as two common applications. We also formalize that the timestamps are ISO 8601 formatted.

Learn more about the changes in version 1.2 of the UBI standard at https://github.com/o19s/ubi/releases/tag/v1.2.0.

Initial UBI Plugin for Elasticsearch - October 9, 2024

The initial code for a UBI plugin for Elasticsearch is now available.

OpenSearch 2.17.1 UBI Plugin - October 4, 2024

The UBI plugin for OpenSearch 2.17.1 is now available.

See what's new and download it at https://github.com/opensearch-project/user-behavior-insights/releases/tag/2.17.1.0.

UBI 1.1.0 Announced - August 31, 2024

First release with third party users looking to leverage UBI. This release is primarily adding things we initially decided to skip, and being more relaxed in our requirements for validation.

Learn more about the changes in version 1.1.0 of the UBI standard at https://github.com/o19s/ubi/releases/tag/v1.1.0.

OpenSearch 2.16.0 UBI Plugin - August 20, 2024

The UBI plugin for OpenSearch 2.16.0 is now available.

See what's new and download it at https://github.com/opensearch-project/user-behavior-insights/releases/tag/2.16.0.0.

OpenSearch 2.15.0 UBI Plugin - June 27, 2024

The UBI plugin for OpenSearch 2.15.0 is now available.

See what's new and download it at https://github.com/opensearch-project/user-behavior-insights/releases/tag/2.15.0.0.

UBI 1.0.0 Announced - June 14, 2024

This is the first release of the User Behavior Insights specification that supports tracking of user queries and subsequent actions. Using this schema allows you to validate that your query data and event data are UBI compliant.

Learn more about the changes in version 1.0.0 of the UBI standard at https://github.com/o19s/ubi/releases/tag/v1.0.0.